Hypertext Webster Gateway: "isolated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Isolate \I"so*late\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Isolated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Isolating}.] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to
isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d {Isle}, and cf.
{Insulate}.]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
--Bp.
Warburton.
2. (Elec.) To insulate. See {Insulate}.
3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make
pure; to obtain in a free state.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Isolated \I"so*la`ted\, a.
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
{Isolated point of a curve}. (Geom.) See {Acnode}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
isolated
adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed
his thigh" [syn: {scattered}, {stray}]
2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of
herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a
set-apart feeling" [syn: {detached}, {separated}, {set-apart}]
3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and
unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"-
Scientific Monthly [syn: {disjunct}]
4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several
stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the
blizzard" [syn: {marooned}, {stranded}]
5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: {quarantined}]
6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over
the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated
villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure
village" [syn: {apart(p)}, {obscure}]
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