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ISOLATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remote and separate physically or socially
Example:
an obscure village
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unconnected (not joined or linked together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not close together in time
Example:
a few stray crumbs
Synonyms:
isolated; stray
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sporadic (recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Example:
isolated patients
Synonyms:
isolated; quarantined
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segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Example:
had a set-apart feeling
Synonyms:
detached; isolated; separated; set-apart
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separate (independent; not united or joint)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Example:
little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara
Synonyms:
disjunct; isolated
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Adjectives
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separate (independent; not united or joint)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Cut off or left behind
Example:
travelers marooned by the blizzard
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unaccompanied (being without an escort)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb isolate
Context examples:
An antineoplastic oligosaccharide anthracycline antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces galilaeus.
(Aclacinomycin B, NCI Thesaurus)
A natural polyketide isolated from the myxobacteria Sorangium cellulosum with antifungal activity.
(Ambruticin, NCI Thesaurus)
A chromopeptide antineoplastic antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces chrysomallus.
(Actinomycin F1, NCI Thesaurus)
An oligosaccharide anthracycline antibiotic isolated from strains of the bacterium Streptomyces galilaeus with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Aclacinomycin Antitumor Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)
A. dentrificans is normally found in soil but has been isolated from human clinical specimens.
(Achromobacter denitrificans, NCI Thesaurus)
The more isolated star launches faster "jets," or outflows of material that slam into the gas and dust around it.
(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)
During sleep, brain MEG responses demonstrated preserved detection of isolated sounds, but no response reflecting statistical clustering.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
M. paraoxydans is pathogenic and one of the most common species of Microbacterium to be isolated from clinical specimens.
(Microbacterium paraoxydans, NCI Thesaurus)
On the sixth day we completed our first circuit of the cliffs, and found ourselves back at the first camp, beside the isolated pinnacle of rock.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
N. lactamica is commensal in the human nasopharynx, commonly isolated from children, and is rarely pathogenic.
(Neisseria lactamica, NCI Thesaurus)
