isolationi‧so‧la‧tion /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/ ●○○ AWL noun [uncountable] 
Because of its geographical isolation, the area developed its own unique culture.isolation of the isolation of rural areasinternational/diplomatic/political isolation the country’s continuing political isolationin isolation The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation. The mansion sits in splendid isolation on top of the hill (=it is far from everything and looks impressive).isolation hospital/ward British English Scarlet fever victims had to go to the isolation hospital. a patient’s isolation period2when someone feels alone and unable to meet or speak to other people: Retirement can often cause feelings of isolation. elderly people living in social isolation3in isolation (from something) if something exists or is considered in isolation, it exists or is considered separately from other things that are connected with it: The future of health care cannot be considered in isolation from economic factors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- First-year college students often experience feelings of isolation.
- The island's isolation has been a major factor in preserving its beauty.
- Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.
- Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
- The lack of clear leadership was underlined by the increasing isolation of Nicholas himself.
- The years in isolation and adversity had deepened his self-knowledge and political awareness.
- Their very weakness, their distance from practical affairs, and their isolation made them ever more extreme.
- Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the country’s continuing political isolation The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation. The mansion sits in splendid isolation on top of the hill (=it is far from everything and looks impressive).
the country’s continuing political isolation The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation. The mansion sits in splendid isolation on top of the hill (=it is far from everything and looks impressive). British English Scarlet fever victims had to go to the isolation hospital.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE Scarlet fever victims had to go to the isolation hospital.· The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous.· Yet keep in mind: your children are in the safest place and the most complete isolation on our hilltop.· Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation.· All of us need approval unless we choose to live in complete isolation from other people.· After months of complete isolation from the outside world Mary's sister visited her.
· The trouble was that the old meeting-house had become a symbol of religious and cultural isolation.· But other varieties of negotiation are no less important. Cultural isolation may be damaging to the business sector of one nation.
· Economic sanctions, the cultural and sporting boycotts, and diplomatic isolation must be maintained and intensified.· Kim Il Sung also found the dialogue with the South to be beneficial, especially in breaking out of his diplomatic isolation.
· Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.· To begin with Darwin had solved this problem by invoking geographical isolation.· A culture defined by a government, a religion, or an economic system does not require geographical or racial isolation.· One process which has certainly been important is geographical isolation.· Frequently many rural communities are faced with more than their physical and geographical isolation.· There is debate about whether a single species can split into two without geographical isolation.· Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too.
· Britain experienced international isolation over the issue and in March 1902, agreed to the Boers' wish for peace.· Ironically, all this international isolation is turning out to be good for us, mobilizing our energy and our national spirit.
· The country's political isolation and lack of indigenous oil has made coal liquefaction a major technology.· Wheatley died, in some political isolation, in 1930.
· Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.
· Two of the most obvious differences are the degree of social isolation and the possibilities of autonomy.· These involved marital, loss or separation, social relations or isolation, and criminal behaviour problems.· Undoubtedly, the human contact which shopping provides becomes increasingly important to people who suffer from social isolation.· Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation.· The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s.· The example of Marilyn Thornton emphasizes sharply the association of housework with social isolation.· Time, distance, and social isolation ensured that each patrolling constable carried a mobile Panopticon with him.· The therapist also raised the problem of Liz's social isolation, and together they explored ways of re-establishing her social life.
· Modernism has projected a compelling image of the artist in a state of splendid isolation.· Art, he was now learning, is made not in splendid calm and isolation but in an unavoidable rush of commitments.· The Memorial Hall stands in splendid isolation as the only village amenity.· All this existed in a state of nearly complete, if splendid, isolation.· All that survives now is two walls, standing in splendid isolation, up to the deck height of the bridge.· It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.· Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
· Konrad Lorenz wrote that birds even in total isolation are able to produce a recognisable version of the song of their species.· It was a 3, 000-foot granite slab, rising in total isolation from a flat plain.· If the Solar System existed in total isolation, those comets would continue to orbit in perfectly stable fashion.· None of us works in total isolation.
NOUN· The Board of Guardians replied that they didn't have any isolation hospital and were unable to accept liability.· Her lungs were racked with fever and the doctor took one look at her and sent her to the isolation hospital.· Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen.· He wanted Asquith on a pedestal and Lloyd George in an isolation hospital.
· This now serves, not only as guest accommodation, but also as an occasional isolation ward, study and music room.· The isolation ward was already crowded with cases of other illnesses when the first five polio victims arrived in May.
VERB· Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.· Afraid to break into his isolation she watched in silence, embarrassed to be there.· An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries.
· The idea of randomness takes its emotive force from being considered in isolation from its context.
· The moderates believe aid and trade are essential and are willing to compromise to end the country's isolation.· John Major has ended Britain's isolation.· Nesterenko is trying to end that isolation and indifference.· But now Pitcairn Island has voted to end its isolation.
· In neither case, does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation.· Subjects do not exist in isolation, but rather come together to form a coherent whole for the children.· The day hospital does not exist in isolation.· Throughout the novel no idea exists in isolation.· Moreover, most such areas exist in isolation from the traditional provision for foot traffic in the rest of each built-up area.· A procedure does not exist in isolation from its surroundings, and Procedure Audit requires this to be acknowledged explicitly.· Even the best examples of habitat types can not exist in isolation like islands of richness in a sea of poverty.· Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
· She felt the isolation then of not being a part of anyone.· Ironically, despite all this activity, most members of Congress feel a sense of isolation most of the time.· He felt his isolation, his inability to connect-it was stronger, essential, cosmic.
· These research activities have led to the initial isolation of many of the now known species of methane producing bacteria.· Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
· All of us need approval unless we choose to live in complete isolation from other people.· The small townships and villages of the backlands thus lived in isolation, largely self-sufficient and introspective.· To those used to claustrophobic living quarters and the isolation of island living, a mini-Bio2 seems positively charming.· He and his family lived in isolation in the hillside village of Botunje, six miles outside of Kragujevac.· Sufferers were shamed, driven out of their own communities and forced to live in isolation.
· But we also know that the genes do not operate in isolation.· Instead the two modules operate in isolation with the results being combined by a control processor.
· Work also provides social contact and reduces the isolation experienced by those bringing up children alone.· Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.· Fiscal equality is not expected to reduce racial isolation.
· Each sentence could be studied in isolation and be analysed in terms of grammatical construction, lexical content and so on.
· Many of the suicide incidents have taken place in remote areas where people suffer physical as well as emotional isolation.· Undoubtedly, the human contact which shopping provides becomes increasingly important to people who suffer from social isolation.· Whereas with us, it's the young, working-class housewife who suffers most from isolation.· It was those who suffered the isolation of the front-line patrol who demanded changes.
· But bosses don't work in isolation and it is in the staff's interest to support them.· None of us works in total isolation.· Clearly, an array of export prohibitions by one country will not work in isolation.· Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.· They are forced to work in isolation, even though it is riskier to do so.· One tutor or clinical teacher would find it impossible to work in isolation.· She does not work in isolation, and poor records will deprive others involved in teaching of vital information about the student.· As is often the case in creative areas, many of them work in isolation, unaware of other activities or opportunities.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Does it really make sense to conceive of a tutorial existing in isolation?
- For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
- He and his family lived in isolation in the hillside village of Botunje, six miles outside of Kragujevac.
- I roamed around archways leading nowhere and windows framed by stone walls standing in isolation.
- In fact, many childhood difficulties may not, in isolation, raise psychiatric risk at all.
- It is now clear that the two can not take place effectively in isolation from each other.
- Men in small rooms, in isolation.
- That is, in considering the effects upon one industry in isolation we have ignored any repercussions throughout industry as a whole.
- All that survives now is two walls, standing in splendid isolation, up to the deck height of the bridge.
- Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution, he argued.
- It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
- The Memorial Hall stands in splendid isolation as the only village amenity.
WORD FAMILYnounisolationisolationismisolationistadjectiveisolatedisolationistverbisolate
1when one group, person, or thing is separate from others: Because of its geographical isolation, the area developed its own unique culture.isolation of the isolation of rural areasinternational/diplomatic/political isolation the country’s continuing political isolationin isolation The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation. The mansion sits in splendid isolation on top of the hill (=it is far from everything and looks impressive).isolation hospital/ward British English Scarlet fever victims had to go to the isolation hospital. a patient’s isolation period2when someone feels alone and unable to meet or speak to other people: Retirement can often cause feelings of isolation. elderly people living in social isolation3in isolation (from something) if something exists or is considered in isolation, it exists or is considered separately from other things that are connected with it: The future of health care cannot be considered in isolation from economic factors.