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- pronunciation:
- aI
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leIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Builder
part of speech: |
transitive verb |
inflections: |
isolates, isolating, isolated |
definition 1: |
to set apart from other things or people.
The police isolated the murder suspect from the other prisoners.We think we have isolated the single cause of this disease.The island people are isolated from the mainland population.- synonyms:
- seclude, segregate
- antonyms:
- combine
- similar words:
- abstract, dissociate, insulate, quarantine, separate, sequester
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definition 2: |
to separate (an infectious person) from other people.
Passengers who had become ill during the voyage were isolated.- synonyms:
- quarantine
- similar words:
- confine, seclude, separate, sequester
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definition 3: |
in chemistry, to extract a pure substance from an impure one.
The carcinogens were isolated from the coal tar.- synonyms:
- extract, purify, refine, separate
- similar words:
- clarify, crystallize, decontaminate, distill
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related words: |
bar, blacklist, cloister, detach, ostracize |
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derivation: |
isolator (n.) |
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