isolate
31isolate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. segregate; insulate, separate, quarantine. See disjunction, exclusion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. confine, detach, seclude; see divide 1 , quarantine , separate 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v.… …
32isolate — i·so·late || aɪsÉ™leɪt v. seclude, set apart, separate; separate one who is sick from others who are healthy, quarantine (Medicine); extract, remove a pure substance from one that is impure (Chemistry) …
33isolate — verb 1》 place apart or alone; cut off. ↘place in quarantine. 2》 Chemistry & Biology obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form. 3》 cut off the electrical or other connection to (a part of a network). noun a person or… …
34isolate — v. a. Separate, dissociate, detach, insulate, segregate, place by itself, set apart …
35isolate — verb 1) the police isolated the area Syn: cordon off, seal off, close off, fence off 2) doctors isolated the patients Syn: separate, set/keep apart, segregate, detach, cut off, shut away, keep in solitude …
36isolate — v 1. set apart, put by itself, segregate, insulate, cut off, Med. quarantine; seclude, keep in solitude, sequester, lock up, pen up; exclude, banish, outlaw, exile, expatriate, ostracize, excommunicate, blacklist. 2. separate, detach, disunite,… …
37isolate — iso·late …
38isolate — verb Syn: separate, segregate, detach, cut off, shut away, alienate, distance, cloister, seclude, cordon off, seal off, close off, fence off Ant: integrate …
39isolate — [ˈaɪsəˌleɪt] verb [T] 1) to keep someone in a place that is away from other people 2) to prevent a country or group from communicating with, doing business with, or getting support from other countries or groups 3) to separate something from… …
40isolate — i•so•late v. [[t]ˈaɪ səˌleɪt[/t]] sometimes [[t]ˈɪs ə [/t]] n., adj. [[t] lɪt, ˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing, n. adj. 1) to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone 2) med to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected …
