isolate

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  1. transitive verb To set apart or cut off from others.
  2. transitive verb To place in quarantine.
  3. transitive verb Chemistry To separate (a substance) in pure form from a combined mixture.
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  • And the structural economic reasons for this aren't easy to isolate, according to Thurmond. —  11Alive.com | Atlanta Video News
  • Thar's SFC and extraction systems are used to separate, isolate, and quantify chemical compounds. —  GEN News Highlights
  • It's hard to break down, isolate, and speculate about symptoms, causes, and effects when the ripple of a problem is both widespread and hard to unravel. —  EE Times-Asia
  • [Incidentally, isn't there a better way to isolate --- for example, in an entirely different folder --- the new SeaMonkey profile from the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape profile?] "Remember the advice at the beginning of this document, that when migrating user data to SeaMonkey from a different Internet Client, do not uninstall the different Internet Client until after installing SeaMonkey and completing the data migration."
  • McGrath, a retired Navy captain who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and was not repatriated until 1973, says he was either ignored or told that the VA's computers simply couldn't isolate the names of POWs who were receiving disability money. —  Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
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isolate:   isolating ·  isolated ·  isolates
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Back-formation from isolated.

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  1. With suffix -ate, from French isoler = Portuguese isolar, from Italian isolare, from Middle Latin insulare, past participle insulatus, detach, separate: see insulate.
  2. from isolate, v.
 

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/ˈaɪsəleɪt/
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