isolate
1isolate — i‧so‧late [ˈaɪsəleɪt] verb [transitive] 1. to prevent a country or company from getting support or business from other countries or companies, so that it becomes weaker: • Efforts to isolate North Korea financially through targeted measures… …
2Isolate — may refer to:* Isolate (album), the second full length studio album by Circus Maximus * Isolate (computation), an isolated computation in the Java Application Isolation API * Isolate (monkey), an isolated monkey in the pit of despair * Isolate… …
3Isolate — 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.… …
4Isolate — Records ist ein Plattenlabel für Elektronische Musik mit Sitz in Berkeley, Kalifornien. Es wurde 1995 von Wai Cheng gegründet. Isolate hat ein Sublabel namens Dyslexic Response, das sich auf das Musikgenre Noise konzentriert. Zu den bekanntesten… …
5isolate — isolate, segregate, seclude, insulate, sequester are comparable when they mean to separate from the usual or natural environment, but they are rarely interchangeable because their other and differentiating implications are often stressed. Isolate …
6Isolate — 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. [PJC] …
7isolate — (v.) by 1786, a new formation from ISOLATED (Cf. isolated) (q.v.). The 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… …
8isolate — [ī′sə lāt΄; ] for n., usually [, ī səlitlit] vt. isolated, isolating [back form. < isolated < It isolato, pp. of isolare, to isolate < isola < L insula, island: see ISLE] 1. to set apart from others; place alone 2. Chem. to separate… …
9isolate — I verb banish, blacklist, confine, cut off, detach, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dislocate, dissever, dissociate, disunite, enisle, exclude, excommunicate, exile, insulate, island, keep apart, keep from contact with others, keep in solitude,… …
10isolate — [v] cut off, set apart abstract, block off, close off, confine, detach, disconnect, disengage, divide, divorce, insulate, island, keep apart, part, quarantine, remove, seclude, segregate, separate, sequester, sever, sunder; concepts 188,201 Ant.… …
