Isolated \I"so*la`ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
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Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t;
277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare
to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and
cf. Insulate.]
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1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to
isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the
troublemakers in a classroom.
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
--Bp.
Warburton.
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2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
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3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign
substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as,
to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.
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4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in
pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate
Eschericia coli from a patient's blood.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
isolated
adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed
his thigh" [syn: scattered, stray]
2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of
herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a
set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, separated, set-apart]
3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and
unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"-
Scientific Monthly [syn: disjunct]
4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several
stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the
blizzard" [syn: marooned, stranded]
5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: quarantined]
6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over
the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated
villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure
village" [syn: apart(p), obscure]
WordNet (r) 2.0
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "isolated":
abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous,
anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm,
cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off,
cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected,
discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct,
dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided,
divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional,
excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken,
friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed,
impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable,
incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular,
insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island,
island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted,
isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic,
other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific,
particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy,
quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful,
reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off,
scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate,
segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular,
smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish,
stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil,
unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided,
unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected,
undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved,
unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded,
unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
isolated
compact
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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