When you remove or set apart one thing from others, you isolate it. You could isolate yourself from people by living in a remote hut or, if you're a biologist, you could isolate a chromosome.
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Verb
place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
Verb
set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
Verb
obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
Verb
separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
v. t.
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
v. t.
To insulate. See Insulate.
v. t.
To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure;
to obtain in a free state.
Isolate
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.2.
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Usage Examples
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
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Other Usage ExamplesTo love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
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