Sekirov Dictionary

isolate

/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/

verb 7
adjective 1
/ˈaɪ.sə.lət/ noun 1
forms 3

verb7

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To set apart or cut off from others.
- By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items. — 1977
To place in quarantine or isolation.
To self-isolate.
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To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- 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. — 1871
To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
To insulate, or make free of external influence.
To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

adjective1

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(literary) isolated.
- He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood. — 1923

isolate

/ˈaɪ.sə.lət/

noun1

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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. — 2016

forms

isolated · isolating · isolates

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