ISOLATED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Isolated

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtəd/ /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Isolate v. t. (past & past part. isolated; pres. part. isolating)

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."

(Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.

(Chem.) To separate (a substance) 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.

adjective

Isolated adj. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

See images of 'Isolated'

Etymology of 'Isolated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Isolated" Quotes from Famous Books

... wished to leave her,—though from a somewhat morbid idea of reparation which my father possessed, he desired to give her an amount that would materially affect our fortunes—but that I loved my sister, and above all loved the proud and isolated position we had obtained in society, and could not endure the results which the revelation of such a stain in, our family must produce. Not my mother, whose whole life since her marriage had been one haughty protest against this ...

— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green

... spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" We find an admission here that, whether the spirit ascends or descends, man and beasts alike have the immortal spark. The Hebrew version is precisely the same as our authorised translation. Read, not an isolated verse, but ...

— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon

... use the word in its widest application, wide enough to cover the mission-room desk, or the preaching place in the open air) is no mere isolated item in the midst of other matters which call for a Clergyman's attention. If the man is working, and ordering his work, aright, the Pulpit will not be a something which has to be taken by the way, a link in a long chain in which committees, clubs, and social gatherings, and the ...

— To My Younger Brethren - Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work • Handley C. G. Moule

... deplorable story of the battle of Tewkesbury. But we are concerned less with the main course of the fortunes of the day than with the individual adventures of certain persons concerned, who, if isolated acts of gallantry and devotion could have saved the day, would have turned the fortunes of even ...

— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green

... man, and were denounced in their turn as friends of the sorcerer. But all were too much exhausted by the night's work to have spirit for more than a snarling encounter of words, and the only effect was that Giles and Stephen were left isolated in their misery outside the shelter of the handsome arched gateway under ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

More quotes...