Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Separated from others; solitary or singular: Reporters in the field observed isolated instances of rebellion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Standing detached from others of a like kind; placed by itself or alone.
- In chem., pure; freed from combination.
Wiktionary
- adj. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- adj. chess Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- adj. meteorology, of precipitation affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of isolate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- adj. cut off or left behind
- adj. not close together in time
- adj. remote and separate physically or socially
- adj. being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- adj. under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Etymologies
- From French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulātus, made into an island, from īnsula, island. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Marker had published various studies on diosgenin, a saponin isolated from a Mexican yam species of the genus Dioscorea, and had discovered how to synthesize the human hormone testosterone and progesterone from diosgenin.”
“A Liverpool police spokesman says police are taking swift and robust action to what he calls "isolated outbreaks of disorder.”
Voice of America: London Riots Spread to Other British Cities
“Ben Venue's Mr. Kurtz said the company immediately began an investigation of the container, which he called an "isolated incident," and reported the incident to the police.”
“He has filed a criminal case against her for allegedly glorifying what he calls isolated incidents and generalizing the city as Talibanized.”
The Wall Street Journal: India News Digest: Gold scales new peak
“In response to Wall Street Journal questions about the Tribune holding its story at Mr. Fitzgerald's request, Tribune spokesman Gary Weitman cited a statement released Tuesday by Gerould Kern, the Tribune's editor, in which he said that such requests are granted in what he called isolated instances.”
The Wall Street Journal: Article Put More Pressure on the FBI to Move In
“On Fox News, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly cautioned not to judge the entire drug war by the video, which they characterized as an isolated incident.”
“They steadfastly maintained that their original inquiry, which led to the conviction of one reporter and one private investigator, had put an end to what they called an isolated incident.”
“It also noted what it called "isolated examples" of anti-U.S. sentiment such as flag burning during protests and warned that foreigners could become targets.”
“Prosecutors recommended a sentence of four to 12 years in prison but Haggerty's lawyers, Raymond Castello and Dennis Vacco, argued that a sentence of probation and community service would be more appropriate for what they described as an isolated incident.”
“This all, whether in isolated regions of Oaxaca State or Chiapas, boils down to politics and power struggles intertwined with religious factionalism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘isolated’.
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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seanahan In chess, a pawn with no pawns in the adjacent files. Feb 20, 2007