isolate
To set apart or cut off from others.
Other meanings
To place in quarantine or isolation.
To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
Related words
- coisolate
- deisolate
- immunoisolate
- isolant
- isolatee
- nonisolate
- preisolate
- reisolate
- subisolate
- oligoisolating
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "īnsulatus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “isolate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.