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Adjective: isolated  'Isu`leytid
  1. Not close together in time
    "isolated instances of rebellion"
    - stray
     
  2. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
    "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"
    - detached, separated, set-apart
     
  3. Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
    "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"
    - disjunct
     
  4. Cut off or left behind
    "an isolated pawn"
    - marooned, stranded
     
  5. Under forced isolation especially for health reasons
    "isolated patients"
    - quarantined
     
  6. Remote and separate physically or socially
    "tiny isolated villages remote from centres of civilization"
    - apart, obscure
Verb: isolate  'Isu`leyt
  1. Place or set apart
    "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
    - insulate
     
  2. Obtain in pure form
    "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
     
  3. Set apart from others
    - sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart
     
  4. Separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

See also: isolable, isolation, segregated, separate, sporadic, unaccompanied, unconnected, unintegrated

Type of: acquire, assort, class, classify, discriminate, disunite, divide, get, part, separate, single out, sort, sort out

Encyclopedia: Isolate

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