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A state of separation between persons or groups
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isolation
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In contact juggling , poi spinning , hooping and other types of object manipulation , an isolation is an illusion whereby a prop appears to float in space, with the performer's hands and body moving around it. In reality, of course, the performer is supporting ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE complete ▪ The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous. ▪ Yet keep in mind: your children are in the safest ...
Usage examples of isolation.
It was his refuge in that aftertime, in which a subsiding grief often leaves a deeper sense of isolation.
In those days, the isolation of Alaskan villages was often the reason for their success in sled dog events.
And with so many familiar, comforting concepts already lost, Alice naturally begins to sense her frightening isolation, her alienation from the self-defining constructs of above-ground culture.
These systems had to store the antihydrogen and deliver it to the annihilation chamber in near perfect isolation from the world of ordinary matter.
Alternatively, consider how the banlieu of Paris has become a series of amorphous and indefinite spaces that promote isolation rather than any interaction or communication.
The twenty-one Benedictine monks who live in prayerful isolation within the walls of Belmont Abbey take vows of poverty.
Since it had once been a biosafety level four facility, much of what we needed was already in place-at least in terms of isolation and security.
The jailers moved Ron from his isolation cell into a bullpen with a dozen others, an arrangement that proved disastrous.
His deconstructionist accounts of science began with his experience as a post-doctoral anthropologist, when he spent a year as a partially participant observer in a Californian laboratory working on the identification and isolation of a neurohormone.
If you will make a decontamination chamber for her, she will go through it, wash herself thoroughly, cut off her hair if you insist, and change her clothing before entering an isolation chamber of your choice until you can see that she is disease-free.
Which was probably what genie-man had been counting on, her defenselessness and isolation.
Even now it remains relatively neglected as a topic of academic interest, which is a pity because few dialects provide a more instructive example of what happens to languages when they exist in isolation.
Rather than focussing on words and sentences in isolation, and assuming that these have stable meanings by themselves, it will examine them from a relational perspective, and, in particular, in relation to the larger discursive structures, or framing discourses, within which we interpret these texts.
He peeled off his psychic isolation garment, and it was then that he began to sense the presence of the dead Ethyls all around him, even thought he glimpsed a fleeting phantom form out of the corner of his eye.
While the monastery kept him safe from discovery by Fiddleback, the prayers and beliefs of the monks deprived him of the isolation given his daughter.