Crossword clues for isolating
isolating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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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. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
(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.
(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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of isolate English)
WordNet
adj. relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles [syn: isolating(a)]
Usage examples of "isolating".
Strippers and analyzers were busily at work on the fringes of the beam, dissecting out, isolating, and identifying each of the many scraps of extraneous thought accompanying the main beam.
Repair crews worked straight through for twenty-four hours after the action, isolating and repairing damage to the complex systems that the ship had to have to operate, constructing supports for weakened decks, repairing or replacing damaged machinery.
Isolating the child from the mother is the way Munchausen by Proxy is usually detected by mental-health professionals.
Here, as in the case of the ordinary physical experimenter, the psychologist seeks to control certain mental processes by isolating them and regulating their action.
After isolating the immortalizing traits from teratoma sources, I proposed that viral, retroviral, and even prion vectors might be engineered to transfer the selected traits into the human genome.
Ciphergen Biosystems, a biotechnology company in Palo Alto, California, is now selling a range of strips for isolating proteins according to various properties, such as whether they dissolve in water or bind to charged metal atoms.
The latter pressed closely upon their heels, made many prisoners, and might have cut them off, and, by isolating Marjoribanks, forced him to surrender, but for one of those occurrences which so frequently in battle change the fortunes of the day.
The boys got away from dinner, and, after deep consultation, agreed upon a course of conduct, which was to commiserate with Farmer Blaize loudly, and make themselves look as much like the public as it was possible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom already felt Adrian's enormous A devouring his back with the fierceness of the Promethean eagle, and isolating him forever from mankind.
Sharra had been fascinated with the concept of isolating certain bacteria and finding ways to combat infection by developing special bacteriophages.
I've been isolating the RNA and the capsid proteins of the virus from all three outbreaks, and astonishingly enough, they are all identical.
To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corncobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down upon thp scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across the shoulders as he leaned out the SANCTUARY 59 door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg.
By isolating the moment from its successions, you confer upon it, subjectively, an absolute value.
If the active agent's there, we've got a good crack at isolating it and getting it.
We're used to isolating patients with lowered resistance to disease, not cases of fatal contagious disease.
She was acutely aware of how isolating life was behind the thick, cold walls of the abbey, and she felt it important that she stay on top of current events, even if they were partiallyor sometimes whollyspeculation.