Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to be alone or apart, as in being inaccessible or unable to move about.
- transitive verb To place in quarantine.
- transitive verb To cause to become socially or politically unengaged or ostracized.
- transitive verb To render free of external influence; insulate.
- transitive verb To identify or distinguish as a separate entity or group.
- transitive verb Chemistry To separate (a substance) in pure form from a combined mixture.
- transitive verb Microbiology To separate (a pure strain of a microorganism or virus) from a mixed culture.
- transitive verb Psychology To separate (experiences or memories) from the emotions relating to them.
- transitive verb To set apart (a component, circuit, or system) from a source of electricity.
- transitive verb To insulate or shield.
- adjective Separated from others.
- noun A person, thing, or group that has been isolated, as by geographic, ecologic, or social barriers.
- noun Microbiology A population of microorganisms or viruses that has been isolated.
- noun Linguistics A language isolate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone: often used reflexively: as, he isolated himself from all society.
- In electricity, same as
insulate , 3. - In chem., to obtain (a substance) free from all its combinations.
- Isolated; detached.
- noun In psychology, a feature or quality abstracted by attention from the complex of qualities constituting an object and considered by itself alone; the result of an analysis of a construct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something that has been isolated.
- transitive verb To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
- transitive verb (Elec.) To insulate. See
Insulate . - transitive verb (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.
- transitive verb (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To set
apart orcut off fromothers . - verb transitive To place in
quarantine orisolation . - verb transitive, chemistry To
separate asubstance inpure form from amixture . - verb transitive To
insulate , or make free ofexternal influence . - verb transitive, microbiology To separate a pure
strain ofbacteria etc. from a mixedculture . - verb transitive To insulate an
electrical component from asource ofelectricity . - noun Something that has been
isolated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set apart from others
- verb obtain in pure form
- verb place or set apart
- verb separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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HOLMES: Well, one thing that's difficult to understand is what the term isolate means.
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When you read ingredient labels look for "soy protein isolate" and "textured soy vegetable protein," which are produced using high temperatures.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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You can also use the Portrait mode to reverse the effect, decreasing the depth of field so that an interesting tree you want to isolate from the background will stand out against an unfocused and distant mountain.
Get The Most From Your Point-and-Shoot Camera | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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When you read ingredient labels look for "soy protein isolate" and "textured soy vegetable protein," which are produced using high temperatures.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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When the protein is isolate from the starches of the flour, it is brownish-grey, tough and rubbery.
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Whey protein isolate, as the name indicates, tries to isolate just the whey protein by removing the lactose.
Whey Protein Steve Carper 2008
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Whey protein isolate should be at least 99% pure protein, and I've seen it used in products that advertise themselves as lactose free.
Whey Protein Steve Carper 2008
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Major flavour innovation is on its way when by 2007 improved organoleptical quality soy protein isolate will become available.
Archive 2006-06-01 Steve Carper 2006
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Major flavour innovation is on its way when by 2007 improved organoleptical quality soy protein isolate will become available.
The Future of Soy Milk Steve Carper 2006
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NDM-1 was first detected in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from a Swedish patient of Indian origin in 2008.
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Daffynition: Me not on time. (I-(am)-so-late)
June 16, 2012