Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - isolate
Isolate
isolate
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 insulate (electrical apparatus). Derivatives isolable adj. isolatable adj. isolator n. Etymology: orig. in past part., f. F isol{eacute} f. It. isolato f. LL insulatus f. L insula island ISOLATED adj. 1 lonely; cut off from society or contact; remote (feeling isolated; an isolated farmhouse). 2 untypical, unique (an isolated example).
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I. transitive verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology: back-formation from ~d set apart, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from isola island, from Latin insula Date: 1799 to set apart from others, to select from among others, insulate, isolator noun II. adjective Date: 1819 being alone ; solitary, ~d, III. noun Date: 1890 an individual, population, strain, or culture obtained by or resulting from selection or separation, an individual socially withdrawn or removed from society ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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