Isolate

Quick meaning: Isolate is a verb meaning (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.

Meaning

(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
2. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
3. (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
4. (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
5. (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
6. (intransitive) To self-isolate.
7. Something that has been isolated.

Example Sentences

Narrow Yung-ch'ung streets quiet, / temple gardens all isolate mystery, / no one visits.

Its snaky acid kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.

We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates.

Word Forms

• isolates
• isolating
• isolated

Synonyms for isolate

Depending on context, synonyms include island, enisle, quarantine, self-quarantine, sequester, insulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sequester, insulate, isolation, separate, dissociate, alienate.

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