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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Isolate \I"so*late\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Isolated}; p. pr & vb n. {Isolating}.] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr isola island, L. insula. See 2d {Isle}, and cf {Insulate}.] 1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. --Bp. Warburton 2. (Elec.) To insulate. See {Insulate}. 3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Isolated \I"so*la`ted\, a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others {Isolated point of a curve}. (Geom.) See {Acnode}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: isolated adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" [syn: {scattered}, {stray}] 2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: {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"- Scientific Monthly [syn: {disjunct}] 4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: {marooned}, {stranded}] 5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: {quarantined}] 6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: {apart(p)}, {obscure}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: isolated {compact}
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