isolate
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin insulatus (whence also insulate).
Pronunciation
edit- (verb) IPA(key): /ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - (noun) IPA(key): /ˈaɪ.sə.lət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: i‧so‧late
Verb
editisolate (third-person singular simple present isolates, present participle isolating, simple past and past participle isolated)
- (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
- (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- 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.
- (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
- (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
- (intransitive) To self-isolate.
Synonyms
edit- (place in isolation): quarantine (fig.)
- (place oneself in isolation): self-quarantine (fig.)
Hyponyms
edit- (place in isolation): quarantine (medical reasons)
- (place oneself in isolation): self-quarantine (medical reasons)
Translations
edittransitive: to set apart or cut off from others
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transitive: to place in quarantine or isolation
transitive, chemistry: to separate a substance in pure form from a mixture
transitive: to insulate, or make free of external influence
transitive, microbiology: to separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture
transitive: to insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity
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Noun
editisolate (plural isolates)
- Something that has been isolated.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsomething that has been isolated
Adjective
editisolate (not comparable)
- (literary) isolated.
- 1923, D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo, chapter XII:
- He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.
- 1961, Sylvia Plath, “Elm [published originally as "The Elm Speaks"]”, in Ariel, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 16:
- Its snaky acid kiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill.
- 1999, Po Chü-i, “At Flowering-Brightness Monastery In Yung-ch'ung District”, in David Hinton, transl., The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i, New York, NY: New Directions, →ISBN, page 12:
- Narrow Yung-ch'ung streets quiet, / temple gardens all isolate mystery, / no one visits.
Related terms
edit- insulant
- insular
- insularity
- insulate
- insulation
- insulator
- isolatable (adjective)
- isolated (adjective)
- isolating (adjective)
- isolation (noun)
- isolationism (noun)
- isolative (adjective)
- isolator (noun)
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editInterlingua
editParticiple
editisolate
- past participle of isolar
Italian
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editisolate
Participle
editisolate f pl
Etymology 2
editVerb
editisolate
- inflection of isolare:
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