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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
isolation
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 place and the most complete isolation on our hilltop.
▪ Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation.
▪ All of us need approval unless we choose to live in complete isolation from other people.
▪ After months of complete isolation from the outside world Mary's sister visited her.
cultural
▪ The trouble was that the old meeting-house had become a symbol of religious and cultural isolation.
▪ But other varieties of negotiation are no less important. Cultural isolation may be damaging to the business sector of one nation.
diplomatic
▪ Economic sanctions, the cultural and sporting boycotts, and diplomatic isolation must be maintained and intensified.
▪ Kim Il Sung also found the dialogue with the South to be beneficial, especially in breaking out of his diplomatic isolation.
geographical
▪ Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
▪ To begin with Darwin had solved this problem by invoking geographical isolation.
▪ A culture defined by a government, a religion, or an economic system does not require geographical or racial isolation.
▪ One process which has certainly been important is geographical isolation.
▪ Frequently many rural communities are faced with more than their physical and geographical isolation.
▪ There is debate about whether a single species can split into two without geographical isolation.
▪ Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too.
international
▪ Britain experienced international isolation over the issue and in March 1902, agreed to the Boers' wish for peace.
▪ Ironically, all this international isolation is turning out to be good for us, mobilizing our energy and our national spirit.
political
▪ The country's political isolation and lack of indigenous oil has made coal liquefaction a major technology.
▪ Wheatley died, in some political isolation, in 1930.
relative
▪ Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.
social
▪ Two of the most obvious differences are the degree of social isolation and the possibilities of autonomy.
▪ These involved marital, loss or separation, social relations or isolation, and criminal behaviour problems.
▪ Undoubtedly, the human contact which shopping provides becomes increasingly important to people who suffer from social isolation.
▪ Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation.
▪ The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s.
▪ The example of Marilyn Thornton emphasizes sharply the association of housework with social isolation.
▪ Time, distance, and social isolation ensured that each patrolling constable carried a mobile Panopticon with him.
▪ The therapist also raised the problem of Liz's social isolation, and together they explored ways of re-establishing her social life.
splendid
▪ Modernism has projected a compelling image of the artist in a state of splendid isolation.
▪ Art, he was now learning, is made not in splendid calm and isolation but in an unavoidable rush of commitments.
▪ The Memorial Hall stands in splendid isolation as the only village amenity.
▪ All this existed in a state of nearly complete, if splendid, isolation.
▪ All that survives now is two walls, standing in splendid isolation, up to the deck height of the bridge.
▪ It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
▪ Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
total
▪ Konrad Lorenz wrote that birds even in total isolation are able to produce a recognisable version of the song of their species.
▪ It was a 3, 000-foot granite slab, rising in total isolation from a flat plain.
▪ If the Solar System existed in total isolation, those comets would continue to orbit in perfectly stable fashion.
▪ None of us works in total isolation.
■ NOUN
hospital
▪ The Board of Guardians replied that they didn't have any isolation hospital and were unable to accept liability.
▪ Her lungs were racked with fever and the doctor took one look at her and sent her to the isolation hospital.
▪ Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen.
▪ He wanted Asquith on a pedestal and Lloyd George in an isolation hospital.
ward
▪ This now serves, not only as guest accommodation, but also as an occasional isolation ward, study and music room.
▪ The isolation ward was already crowded with cases of other illnesses when the first five polio victims arrived in May.
■ VERB
break
▪ Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
▪ Afraid to break into his isolation she watched in silence, embarrassed to be there.
▪ An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries.
consider
▪ The idea of randomness takes its emotive force from being considered in isolation from its context.
end
▪ The moderates believe aid and trade are essential and are willing to compromise to end the country's isolation.
▪ John Major has ended Britain's isolation.
▪ Nesterenko is trying to end that isolation and indifference.
▪ But now Pitcairn Island has voted to end its isolation.
exist
▪ In neither case, does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation.
▪ Subjects do not exist in isolation, but rather come together to form a coherent whole for the children.
▪ The day hospital does not exist in isolation.
▪ Throughout the novel no idea exists in isolation.
▪ Moreover, most such areas exist in isolation from the traditional provision for foot traffic in the rest of each built-up area.
▪ A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings, and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly.
▪ Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty.
▪ Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
feel
▪ She felt the isolation then of not being a part of anyone.
▪ Ironically, despite all this activity, most members of Congress feel a sense of isolation most of the time.
▪ He felt his isolation, his inability to connect-it was stronger, essential, cosmic.
lead
▪ These research activities have led to the initial isolation of many of the now known species of methane producing bacteria.
▪ Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
live
▪ All of us need approval unless we choose to live in complete isolation from other people.
▪ The small townships and villages of the backlands thus lived in isolation, largely self-sufficient and introspective.
▪ To those used to claustrophobic living quarters and the isolation of island living, a mini-Bio2 seems positively charming.
▪ He and his family lived in isolation in the hillside village of Botunje, six miles outside of Kragujevac.
▪ Sufferers were shamed, driven out of their own communities and forced to live in isolation.
operate
▪ But we also know that the genes do not operate in isolation.
▪ Instead the two modules operate in isolation with the results being combined by a control processor.
reduce
▪ Work also provides social contact and reduces the isolation experienced by those bringing up children alone.
▪ Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
▪ Fiscal equality is not expected to reduce racial isolation.
study
▪ Each sentence could be studied in isolation and be analysed in terms of grammatical construction, lexical content and so on.
suffer
▪ Many of the suicide incidents have taken place in remote areas where people suffer physical as well as emotional isolation.
▪ Undoubtedly, the human contact which shopping provides becomes increasingly important to people who suffer from social isolation.
▪ Whereas with us, it's the young, working-class housewife who suffers most from isolation.
▪ It was those who suffered the isolation of the front-line patrol who demanded changes.
work
▪ But bosses don't work in isolation and it is in the staff's interest to support them.
▪ None of us works in total isolation.
▪ Clearly, an array of export prohibitions by one country will not work in isolation.
▪ Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.
▪ They are forced to work in isolation, even though it is riskier to do so.
▪ One tutor or clinical teacher would find it impossible to work in isolation.
▪ She does not work in isolation, and poor records will deprive others involved in teaching of vital information about the student.
▪ As is often the case in creative areas, many of them work in isolation, unaware of other activities or opportunities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in splendid isolation
▪ All that survives now is two walls, standing in splendid isolation, up to the deck height of the bridge.
▪ Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
▪ It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
▪ The Memorial Hall stands in splendid isolation as the only village amenity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ First-year college students often experience feelings of isolation.
▪ The island's isolation has been a major factor in preserving its beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.
▪ Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
▪ The lack of clear leadership was underlined by the increasing isolation of Nicholas himself.
▪ The years in isolation and adversity had deepened his self-knowledge and political awareness.
▪ Their very weakness, their distance from practical affairs, and their isolation made them ever more extreme.
▪ Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isolation

Isolation \I`so*la"tion\ ([imac]`s[-o]*l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. isolation.] The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
--Milman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
isolation

1800, noun of action from isolate, or else from French isolation, noun of action from isoler (see isolated).

Wiktionary
isolation

n. 1 (context chiefly uncountable English) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated. 2 The act of isolating. 3 (context diplomacy of a country English) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries). 4 (senseid en chemistry: separation of a component from a mixture)(context chemistry English) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture 5 (context medicine English) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others 6 (context computing English) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions

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WordNet
isolation

  1. n. a state of separation between persons or groups

  2. the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others [syn: closing off]

  3. a feeling of being disliked and alone

  4. preference for seclusion or isolation [syn: reclusiveness]

  5. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

  6. a country's withdrawal from internal politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"

Wikipedia
Isolation (poker)

In poker, an isolation play is usually a raise designed to encourage one or more players to fold, specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent. For example, if an opponent raises and a player suspects he is holding a weak, but playable hand, they may reraise to pressure other opponents to fold, with the aim of getting heads up with the opening raiser.

Isolation plays are most common against overly- aggressive players ("maniacs") who frequently play inferior hands, or with players who may have a drawing hand. Isolation plays are also common in tournaments to isolate a player who is "short stacked", that is, one who is in imminent danger of elimination, and so is likely to be playing aggressively out of desperation. However, when a player is extremely short stacked compared to the rest of the field in a tournament, making him bust will sometimes be more profitable than winning his chips, so inducing overcalls from other players trumps isolation play.

Isolating is encouraged when holding a hand that fares better heads up than in a multi-way pot. For instance, when a player has a small pocket pair he may raise a large amount simply to knock out other players because typically a small pocket pair is about 50–60% likely to win an all-in pot in a heads up situation, but less likely when facing multiple opponents.

Isolation (database systems)

In database systems, isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems. For example, when a user is creating a Purchase Order and has created the header, but not the Purchase Order lines, is the header available for other systems/users, carrying out concurrent operations (such as a report on Purchase Orders), to see?

A lower isolation level increases the ability of many users to access data at the same time, but increases the number of concurrency effects (such as dirty reads or lost updates) users might encounter. Conversely, a higher isolation level reduces the types of concurrency effects that users may encounter, but requires more system resources and increases the chances that one transaction will block another.

Isolation is typically defined at database level as a property that defines how/when the changes made by one operation become visible to other. On older systems, it may be implemented systemically, for example through the use of temporary tables. In two-tier systems, a Transaction Processing (TP) manager is required to maintain isolation. In n-tier systems (such as multiple websites attempting to book the last seat on a flight), a combination of stored procedures and transaction management is required to commit the booking and send confirmation to the customer.

Isolation is one of the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties.

Isolation (Toto album)

Isolation is the Gold-certified fifth studio album by Toto, released on October 18, 1984. This was one of two albums the band made with Fergie Frederiksen as the primary vocalist, the other being their soundtrack to Dune. Isolation failed to achieve the popularity of its predecessor, Toto IV, although it achieved gold record status and gave the band their highest charting mainstream rock single " Stranger in Town" (No. 7). Relatively few songs from this album were featured in live performances after 1985's Isolation World Tour.

Isolation

Isolation is the process or fact of isolating or being isolated and may refer to:

  • Human isolation (disambiguation)
  • Solitude, a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people
  • Solitary confinement, a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from most or all human contact
  • Isolationism in politics, the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations
Isolation (John Lennon song)

"Isolation" is a 1970 song appearing on John Lennon's first official solo album release, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. It ends side one of the album, and is the fifth track.

Isolation (2005 film)

Isolation is a 2005 Irish horror film directed and written by Billy O'Brien and produced by Film Four and Lions Gate Film Studios. The film was released direct to DVD on 26 June 2007.

Isolation (Carpathian album)

Isolation is the second studio album by Australian hardcore punk band Carpathian. The album peaked at No. 19 on the Australian ARIA Charts. The song "'Permanent" takes lyrics from " Something Must Break" by Joy Division. The title track and "Ceremony" also share their names with Joy Division songs. It reached No. 1 in the ShortFastLoud top 40 countdown of the year on triple J.

Isolation (psychology)

Isolation is a defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory first proposed by Sigmund Freud. While related to repression the concept distinguishes itself in several ways. It is characterized as a mental process involving the creation of a gap between an unpleasant or threatening cognition, and other thoughts and feelings. By minimizing associative connections with other thoughts, the threatening cognition is remembered less often and is less likely to affect self-esteem or the self concept. Freud illustrated the concept with the example of a person beginning a train of thought and then pausing for a moment before continuing to a different subject. His theory stated that by inserting an interval the person was "letting it be understood symbolically that he will not allow his thoughts about that impression or activity to come into associative contact with other thoughts." As a defense against harmful thoughts, isolation prevents the self from allowing these cognitions to become recurrent and possibly damaging to the self-concept.

Isolation (Joy Division song)

"Isolation" is a 1980 song appearing on the post-punk band Joy Division's second album, Closer. The song is based upon an electronic drum beat by Stephen Morris, accompanied by a high-pitched keyboard line by Bernard Sumner. Midway through the song, a rushing drum and hi-hat motif come in, propelling the song toward its dramatic end in what resembles a compact disc skipping (though the song predates the format), followed by a sudden electronic crescendo. In his book "Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division", Peter Hook reveals the ending came as the serendipitous result of Martin Hannett's efforts to rescue the original master tape from a botched edit by a junior sound engineer.

The song also appears on the Heart and Soul box set and on Permanent. A live version from the band's last concert appears on Still. The song is also used in the 2007 Joy Division biopic Control.

Isolation (illusion)

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 the prop, and countering his or her movement relative to the prop.

Michael Moschen is originally credited for developing several of the techniques for ball isolations (as well as hoops and other props) and since his original performance of 'Light' in the late 1980s, the idea has developed into a wide variety of techniques. One of the most important developments was the combination of crystal ball isolations and body- popping/ locking/waving dance styles, as seen in the styles of, amongst others, Nik Robson and Matt Hennem in the '90s.

Category:Contact juggling Category:Juggling patterns and tricks

Isolation (health care)

In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement infection control: the prevention of contagious diseases from being spread from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient (reverse isolation). Various forms of isolation exist, in some of which contact procedures are modified, and others in which the patient is kept away from all others. In a system devised, and periodically revised, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), various levels of patient isolation comprise application of one or more formally described "precaution".

Isolation is most commonly used when a patient is known to have a contagious ( transmissible person-to-person) viral or bacterial illness. Special equipment is used in the management of patients in the various forms of isolation. These most commonly include items of personal protective equipment ( gowns, masks, and gloves) and engineering controls (positive pressure rooms, negative pressure rooms, laminar air flow equipment, and various mechanical and structural barriers). Dedicated isolation wards may be pre-built into hospitals, or isolation units may be temporarily designated in facilities in the midst of an epidemic emergency.

Isolation (2009 film)

Isolation is a documentary film by Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull completed in 2009.

Isolation (Alter Bridge song)

"Isolation" is a song written and performed by Alter Bridge, released as the first single from their third album, AB III, and is their most successful single to date. It was made available as a digital download on September 26, 2010 in the United Kingdom by Roadrunner Records and October 25, 2010 in the United States by Alter Bridge Recordings via Capitol Records. Musically, "Isolation" is heavy and aggressive, featuring the band's hard rock style while retaining a catchy, melodic chorus and incorporating elements of alternative metal and speed metal. The lyrics explore metaphorically isolating oneself from faith and belief, a common theme throughout the record. A music video for the song was released on December 6, 2010.

The song impressed music critics and debuted at No. 34 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks in October, though the single was originally only released in Britain. Several active rock radio stations in the United States put the song in regular rotation several weeks before its U.S. release. In the U.S., it initially became the most-added song on active rock radio and the 21st most-played active rock radio single, with the fastest increase in rotations out of any rock song at the time. In January, 2011 the song reached No. 1 on active rock radio, where it remained for five consecutive weeks, and spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's first No. 1 single.

Isolation (The Walking Dead)

"Isolation" is the third episode of the fourth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on October 27, 2013. It was written by series creator Robert Kirkman and directed by Dan Sackheim. In this episode, the situation at the prison worsens, as the virus infects more inhabitants, and the survivors try to figure out how to deal with the situation. Meanwhile, the group is confronted with a possible traitor, after Tyreese ( Chad Coleman) discovers the murder of two infected individuals.

Isolation (microbiology)

In microbiology, the term isolation refers to the separation of a strain from a natural, mixed population of living microbes, as present in the environment, for example in water or soil flora, or from living beings with skin flora, oral flora or gut flora, in order to identify the microbe(s) of interest. Historically, the laboratory techniques of isolation first developed in the field of bacteriology and parasitology (during the 19th century), before those in virology during the 20th century. Methods of microbial isolation have drastically changed over the past 50 years, from a labor perspective with increasing mechanization, and in regard to the technology involved, and hence speed and accuracy.

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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.