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| i·so·late [ ssə làyt ] |
transitive verb (past and past participle i·so·lat·ed, present participle i·so·lat·ing, 3rd person present singular i·so·lates) |
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1. separate somebody or something from others: to separate somebody or something from others of the same type
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2. cut place off: to make a place unreachable from the surrounding area
  Heavy snowfalls have temporarily isolated the town.
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3. find cause of something: to discover which of a number of possible causes or factors is responsible for a specific phenomenon or problem
He isolated a bug in the software as the cause of the failure.
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4. medicine quarantine somebody: to keep somebody who is infected away from other people in order to prevent the spread of a contagious disease
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5. biology separate out virus: to separate out a chemical or biological material such as a virus or bacterium in order to identify and study it
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6. electronics insulate electronic device: to prevent a circuit or device from interacting with another or with an outside stimulus
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noun (plural i·so·lates) |
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1. lone person or group: a person or group separated or cut off from others
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2. biology chemistry microorganism grown in laboratory: a sample of biological material, especially a microorganism, that has been cultured for study
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3. fitness nutritional product: cultured biological material prepared for use as a nutritional supplement
whey protein isolate
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4. linguistics only language of family: a language that is the only known surviving member of its language family
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| [Early 19th century. Back-formation <isolated< French isolé< late Latin insulatus "made into an island" < Latin insula "island"] |
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