isolate /īˈsō-lāt/

1. To place in a detached situation, like an island
2. To detach
3. To insulate
4. To separate (esp those with an infectious disease) (medicine)
5. To seclude
6. To segregate
7. To obtain in a pure, uncombined state
8. To establish a pure culture of (a microorganism)

Something isolated, esp for individual study or experiment

Isolated

isolabilˈity noun

iˈsolable adjective

iˈsolāted adjective

1. Standing apart
2. Separate
3. Solitary

isolāˈtion noun

isolāˈtionism noun

The policy of avoiding political entanglements with other countries

isolāˈtionist noun and adjective

iˈsolātive adjective

1. Tending towards isolation
2. Occurring without influence from outside

iˈsolātor noun

1. Someone who or something that isolates
2. A transparent plastic enclosure in which a patient is kept free of contamination by infective agents (medicine)

isolated replay see iso

isolating languages plural noun

Those in which each word is a bare root, not inflected or compounded

• horse-dealers
• horse-dealing
• horse-doctor
• horse-doctors
• mammographies
• mammographs
• mammography
• mammon
• mammonish
• mammonism
• mammonisms
• mammonist
• mammonistic
• mammonists
• mammonite
• mammonites
• mammons
• mammoplasties
• mammoplasty
• mammoth
• mammoths
• mammoth-tree
• mammoth-trees
• mammy
• mammy-wagon