isolating Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb place or set apart
   isolate; insulate.
   
   • They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates
2. verb obtain in pure form
   isolate.
   
   • The chemist managed to isolate the compound
3. verb set apart from others
   sequester; set apart; isolate; keep apart; sequestrate.
   
   • The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
4. verb separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
   isolate.
   
5. adjective satellite relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
   

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