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单词 iso
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ison.

Brit. /ˈʌɪsəʊ/, U.S. /ˈaɪsoʊ/, Australian English /ˈɑesoʊ/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: isolation n.
Etymology: Shortened < isolation n.
colloquial (chiefly U.S. and Australian).
1. A cell or block of cells in a prison, juvenile detention centre, etc., in which individuals are isolated from other inmates.
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1931 Amer. Speech 6 439 Iso, the isolation cells.
1970 F. Bonham Viva Chicano xiv. 156 The..boy had been wrong about there being beds in Iso.
1993 J. M. Yates Line Screw i. 18 ‘A-side’ was the segregation unit—the digger, the hole, isolation, iso, and a dozen other monikers of prison lore.
2009 C. With Having Faith in Polar Girls' Prison iii. 90 Linda and Deb's got my arms and pulling them back and hauling me off to Iso.
2. Isolation from other people, typically undertaken in order to avoid catching or transmitting an infectious disease; a period of this. Now frequently in in iso.Recorded earliest in iso ward at Compounds 1, and otherwise rare before the 21st cent.
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1938 Jrnl. Royal Mil. Coll. Austral. Dec. 11 The doctor eventually looks at the lumps And says you've got common or garden mumps... You pull up in front of the ‘Iso’ ward.
2005 M. Hawke Night Stalkers ix. 79 ‘You will be held here in iso until we return from the mission’... Iso, or isolation, meant that from this point on none of them would be able to see their families... This would prevent anyone from letting even the smallest mission detail slip.
2007 Global Broadcast Database (Nexis) 11 Aug. A spayed German shepherd mix..came down with kennel cough and had to spend two weeks in iso.
2020 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Mar. My daughter and I are at the farm. Nine days in iso, five to go... The UK is in lockdown and international travel is a distant dream. Our eight-day iso feels like a month.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, denoting areas in which individuals are isolated from others, typically for health or security reasons; as in iso cell, iso room, iso ward, etc.
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1938 Jrnl. Royal Mil. Coll. Austral. Dec. 11 The doctor eventually looks at the lumps And says you've got common or garden mumps... You pull up in front of the ‘Iso’ ward.
1970 F. Bonham Viva Chicano xiv. 155 Don't mouth off or they'll shove you in an Iso room.
1996 Billboard (Nexis) 20 July The studio consists of a 650-square-foot control room.., two iso booths, and an upstairs lounge.
2006 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. [He] was admitted to the ‘Iso Room-5’ (Isolation room) of the Nephrology ward.
2018 Mail Online (Nexis) 29 June In a..padded iso cell in the Douglas County Jail,..she begged to be allowed to take her own life.
C2. Sport (chiefly American Football and Basketball). As a modifier, designating a play in which an attacking player engages a particular defender in a one-on-one match-up; esp. in iso play. Also: of or relating to such a play.Cf. isolation n. Additions.
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1967 H. Daugherty Def. Spartan Style ii. 32 If the guard performs something unusual such as blocking out on the defensive tackle, the LB [= linebacker] steps up and takes on any halfback ‘Iso’ block or a come-around block by the offensive tackle.
1979 H. E. Flanagan & R. Gardner Basic Lacrosse Strategy iv. 46 Isolation. ‘Iso’ plays feature the dodge and the flip-off. This type of play forces the defense to put single coverage on a strong dodger.
1998 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 9 Sept. c1 We've got a lot to offer on offense... Alabama-Birmingham worked hard on taking away our traps, the iso runs and the whole inside game. So we went to more options.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. d3/1 The Hawks shunned the isolation sets designed to create one-on-one situations. ‘Every team I've been on before has run iso plays.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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I.S.O.
I.S.O. n. (a) Imperial Service Order; (b) International Organization for Standardization.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 340/1 The members of the order have the distinction of adding the letters I.S.O. after their names.
1909 Whitaker's Almanack 118 Thos. H. Sanderson Sanderson, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., I.S.O.
1947 N.Y. Times 2 Nov. 22/6 Howard Coonley..has been elected president of the new International Organization for Standardization, formation of which has been completed by delegates from twenty-five nations meeting in London... Gustave L. Gerard..has been chosen vice president of the new organization which will be known informally as ISO.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 400/1 The equipment covered by this plan is standard ISO 20 ft steel containers with fork-lift pockets, and standard 40 ft ISO aluminium containers.
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