isolate
41isolate — /ˈaɪsəleɪt / (say uysuhlayt) verb (t) (isolated, isolating) 1. to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone. 2. Medicine to keep (an infected person) from contact with non infected ones. 3. Chemistry to obtain (a substance) in an… …
42isolate — Ho oka awale …
43isolate — v.tr. 1 a place apart or alone, cut off from society. b place (a patient thought to be contagious or infectious) in quarantine. 2 a identify and separate for attention (isolated the problem). b Chem. separate (a substance) from a mixture. 3… …
44isolate oneself — v. seclude oneself, place oneself in solitude …
45isolate the battery — See disconnect the battery …
46Primary isolate — is a pure microbial or viral sample that has been obtained from an infected individual, rather than grown in a laboratory. In chemistry and bacteriology, the verb isolate means to obtain a pure chemical, bacteriological or viral sample. The noun… …
47Language isolate — A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic ) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other …
48Genetic isolate — A genetic isolate is population of organisms that has little genetic mixing with other organisms within the same species. This may result in speciation, but this is not necessarily the case. Genetic isolates may form new species in several ways:* …
49language isolate — noun A natural language with no proven relationship with another living language …
50mating isolate — noun see mating group …
