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    i·so·late
    verb[ˈīsəˌlāt]
    isolate (verb) · isolates (third person present) · isolated (past tense) · isolated (past participle) · isolating (present participle)
    1. cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others:
      "a country that is isolated from the rest of the world"
      • place (a person or animal) in quarantine to prevent the spread of an infectious disease:
        "the best way to isolate sick fish is to set up a hospital tank"
      • remain apart from others for a period of time, especially in order to avoid catching or transmitting an infectious disease:
        "the governor urged residents to isolate to limit the spread of the virus"
    2. identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately:
      "his difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant"
      • cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, especially a part of a supply network):
        "engineers isolated the gas supply to the house"
      • cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, especially a part of a supply network).
      • chemistry
        biology
        obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form:
        "the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it"
    noun[ˈīsələt]
    isolate (noun) · isolates (plural noun)
    1. a person or thing that has been or become isolated:
      "social isolates often become careless of their own welfare"
    2. biology
      a culture of microorganisms isolated for study.
    Origin
    early 19th century (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.
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    verb
    1. cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others:
      keep apart
      keep in solitude
      cordon off
      form a ring around
      put a cordon sanitaire around
      close off
      fence off
      rope off
      screen off
      tape off
      curtain off
      partition off
      Opposite:
    2. identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately:
      Opposite:
      noun
      1. a person or thing that has been or become isolated:
       
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