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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
isolate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a remote/isolated area (=a long way from towns and cities)
▪ a remote area of northeast Afghanistan
an isolated incident (=one that happens on its own, not together with others)
▪ Luckily the attack turned out to be an isolated incident.
isolated individuals (=one on their own, not in a group with others)
▪ Society does not consist of isolated individuals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Although acquitted, Du Bois became more isolated during the 1950s, and was denied a passport until 1958.
▪ Following her death, Park became even more isolated, withdrawn, and remote.
▪ Jimmy Carter was not from that elite, but he was even more isolated.
▪ Of the 20 percent who felt more isolated, most said they felt that way because they had less communication with co-workers.
▪ Making decisions that were unpopular with their subordinates, the managers felt even more isolated.
▪ Strategically, it left Pyongyang more vulnerable and more isolated than before.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Mr Palomar's attempt to isolate the wave is a difficult and repeatedly unsuccessful one.
▪ But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless.
▪ But the attempt to isolate such cases from the majority of child abuse cases must always be made.
▪ In the case of acute infectious diseases, attempts are made to isolate a single identifiable organism.
community
▪ Mr Straw said the fears of people in isolated rural communities could not be dismissed.
▪ It is possible to isolate several features of community care.
▪ Now the court comes to the people in poor, isolated communities-with the reassuring informality of a village meeting.
gene
▪ Once a mutation that causes an abnormality is observed, it becomes possible to try and identify and isolate the gene.
▪ Once isolated, the mutant gene will be the second gene known to increase the risk for the brain disorder.
▪ His team has isolated the gene switches, called promoters, from rubber plants that turn genes on exclusively in the latex.
group
▪ Well-equipped gyms will have a large selection of leg machines designed to isolate the various muscle groups.
▪ In isolating such groups for surveillance and regulation, the profession was drawing on changes within medical discourse.
rest
▪ Then, effectively isolated from the rest, it would continue dividing.
▪ Anapra is relatively isolated from the rest of Ciudad Juarez, perhaps an hour away by bus.
▪ Meanwhile the kidnapping industry continued with a vengeance, effectively isolating Chechnya from the rest of the world.
▪ It is too isolated from the rest of the curriculum.
▪ We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it.
▪ Still, no religious movement, pentecostalism included, is isolated from the rest of the culture.
▪ Those inside are left to make do as best they can in a community isolated from the rest of the world.
▪ Humans however, have learnt to isolate sugar from the rest of the plant.
world
▪ An entire childhood spent in darkness, isolated from the world, with no human contact except an occasional beating.
▪ When I first discovered that little village, it was this isolated little world.
■ VERB
become
▪ Although acquitted, Du Bois became more isolated during the 1950s, and was denied a passport until 1958.
▪ Following her death, Park became even more isolated, withdrawn, and remote.
feel
▪ These factors can contribute to making you feel isolated.
▪ Altoona receded quickly, and my parents must have felt isolated and deceived.
▪ Of the 20 percent who felt more isolated, most said they felt that way because they had less communication with co-workers.
▪ Therefore I feel isolated down here in the flatland prairie, and would like to know a little more about you.
▪ There is no need for them to feel so isolated and miserable.
▪ Making decisions that were unpopular with their subordinates, the managers felt even more isolated.
▪ I felt less isolated in my position.
remain
▪ It has not remained isolated and unexplained or remote from the community.
▪ The animal will remain isolated, though, because older and bigger rhinos likely would pick on the youngster, Blakeslee said.
▪ The old growth remaining nearby occurs in isolated patches and is under constant threat.
try
▪ We can try to isolate sport-related output, sports-related income, or sports-related expenditure.
▪ If that happened we could then try to purify and isolate the morphogen from the mixture - but we had no luck.
▪ Once a mutation that causes an abnormality is observed, it becomes possible to try and identify and isolate the gene.
▪ These explanations try to isolate clearly-defined elements of behaviour, and to account for them in terms of the simplest possible models of learning.
▪ The work was geared towards trying to isolate the products of specific workshops or craftsmen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The six other patients were immediately isolated from the infected four.
▪ The U.S. has tried to isolate Cuba both economically and politically.
▪ Their goal is to surround and isolate the town.
▪ We've succeeded in isolating the gene that determines a person's weight.
▪ We used to routinely isolate people who had measles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They may reject you and isolate you because you are different from them and they would like to be like you.
▪ Yet it is often a hidden disability, which isolates both the people who suffer from it and their families.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isolate

Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[asl]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t`), n. Something that has been isolated; as, an isolate of a powerful antibiotic from a tropical plant; an isolate of tuberculosis bacillus from an infected patient.

Isolate

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.]

  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.

    Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
    --Bp. Warburton.

  2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.

  3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as, to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.

  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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
isolate

by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.).\n\nThe translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed.

["The British Critic," April 1799]

\nAs a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819).
Wiktionary
isolate

n. Something that has been isolated. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To set apart or cut off from others. 2 (label en transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation. 3 (senseid en chemistry)(label en transitive chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture. 4 (label en transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.

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WordNet
isolate

  1. v. place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" [syn: insulate]

  2. obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"

  3. set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart]

  4. separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them

Wikipedia
Isolate

Isolate may refer to:

  • Isolate (computation), a computation in the Java Application Isolation API
  • Genetic isolate, a population of organisms that has little genetic mixing with other organisms of the same species
  • Language isolate, a language not related to any other
  • Isolating language, a type of language with a very low morpheme per word ratio
  • Primary isolate, a pure microbial or viral sample that has been obtained from an infected individual
  • Chemical isolate, the pure result of a chemical purification process
    • Protein isolate, the result of protein purification, which isolates a single type of protein from a complex mixture
Media and entertainment
  • Isolate (Circus Maximus album), 2007
  • Isolate (Gary Numan album), 1992
  • Isolate (puzzle), a logic puzzle
Isolate (Circus Maximus album)

Isolate is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Circus Maximus. The album was released on October 24, 2007 in Japan, August, 2007 in Europe and September 4, 2007 in the US.

The cover-art for the album as well as a sample track containing an excerpt from the song "Wither", was released by the band on May 29, 2007 on the official Circus Maximus website. Like its former album, Isolate contains the same number of tracks (with the bonus tracks) and also track 4 is an Instrumental ("Biosfear" on The 1st Chapter and "Sane No More" on Isolate).

Isolate is also the first album to feature new keyboardist Lasse Finbråten after Espen Storø's departure at the end of recording of The 1st Chapter. Lasse Finbråten added more keyboard/ synthesizer sounds to the album in both soloing and overall use. This is different from the previous album as Espen Storø's sound centered on the use of the piano.

The album entered the Norwegian national charts at number 70 in August, 2007.

Isolate (puzzle)

Isolate is a logic-based line-placement puzzle. The puzzler is provided with a grid containing walls, dots and a set of area sizes. A solved grid will contain areas of the given sizes containing two dots each.

The puzzle was invented by an English puzzle enthusiast, Laurence May, in 2007. It is produced by Vexus Puzzle Design and appears daily along with Sudoku and Kakuro in the Daily Mail.

Isolate (Gary Numan album)

Isolate - The Numa Years is a compilation album by Gary Numan. It was released in March 1992 on CD and cassette and contains tracks issued on his own Numa Records label during the years 1984-1986. The songs (mainly in their extended or long forms) are taken from the albums Berserker, The Fury and Strange Charm. The four page insert contains printed lyrics to all the tracks.

CD copies of this album are known to suffer from CD bronzing.

Isolate (film)

iSOLATE is an Australian mystery, drama, horror film written and directed by indie filmmaker Martyn Park, starring Jacinta John and Terry Serio. The film premiered at the inaugural Los Angeles Fear and Fantasy Film Festival in 2012, where its lead actress Jacinta John won the best actress award for her portrayal of Scout Taylor.

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Usage examples of "isolate".

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

Nor is the argument of the defendants adequately met by citing isolated cases.

The goal is to avoid letting the adolescent isolate cyberspace from the rest of their life.

The only way to water the crops was to somehow extract enough moisture from the airsome was available, but difficult to isolate, especially with very small natural temperature changes in the Maracandan atmosphere.

Islanded, isolated and hemmed in for centuries by the Master of the Straits, the armies of the kingdom of Alba had never constituted a true threat to our borders.

DNA chips, runs DNA isolated from the borehole samples through polymerase chain reactions to make thousands of random copies, and passes aliquots across the chips.

Ironically, coca, the one that had first piqued his imagination, was the last to have its alkaloid isolated.

Of course, he was writing about coca, not cocaine, but the moment the alkaloid was isolated from the leaf they were assumed to be one and the same.

A crystalline alkaloid which is fatal to frogs in a dose of one centigramme, has been isolated from the common Stinging Nettle.

The boy Calistro was sent to roust out the village victualers while the new arrivals pushed through a gabbling, laughing mob toward an isolated tub where Peopeo Moxmox Burke sat, his long graying hair stringy in the bathhouse vapors and his craggy face atwitch as he suppressed a delighted grin.

He was off on a fifty-mile drive to the isolated stretch of Long Island where the old Beld mansion stood.

Land area was scant, isolated volcanic tips thrust above the endlessly rolling seas, but the location of the planet saved long and tedious blinks from that sector of space back into Empire central.

Isolated crystals of bytownite bounded by well-defined faces are unknown.

Goldfinger and his caddie drifted away still wider to where the rough thinned out into isolated tufts.

Like Carain, Saura is isolated, and as such, faces a greater threat of attack than Dukkair.