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To set apart or cut off from others.transitive
- By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.
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To place in quarantine or isolation.transitive
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To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.transitive
- To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.
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To insulate, or make free of external influence.transitive
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
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To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.transitive
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To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.transitive
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To self-isolate.intransitive
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Something that has been isolated.
- We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates.
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isolated.literarynot-comparable
- He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.
- Its snaky acid kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.