isolating

isolating [ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh-] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for isolating on Thesaurus.com adjective Linguistics.

1. pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order.Compare agglutinative(def 2), inflectional(def 2).

Origin of isolating First recorded in 1855–60; isolate + -ing2 isolate [verb ahy-suh-leyt; noun, adjective ahy-suh-lit, -leyt] verb (used with object), i·so·lat·ed, i·so·lat·ing.

1. to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
2. Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine.
3. Chemistry, Bacteriology. to obtain (a substance or microorganism) in an uncombined or pure state.
4. Electricity. to insulate.
5. Television. to single out (a person, action, etc.) for a camera closeup.

noun

6. a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
7. Psychology. a person, often shy or lacking in social skills, who avoids the company of others and has no friends within a group.
8. Biology. an inbreeding population that is isolated from similar populations by physiological, behavioral, or geographic barriers.
9. Also called language isolate. Linguistics. a language with no demonstrable genetic relationship, as Basque.
10. something that has been isolated, as a by-product in a manufacturing process: an isolate of soy flour.

adjective

11. isolated; alone.

Origin of isolate First recorded in 1800–10; back formation from isolated Related formsi·so·la·tor, nounre·i·so·late, verb (used with object), re·i·so·lat·ed, re·i·so·lat·ing.un·i·so·late, verb (used with object), un·i·so·lat·ed, un·i·so·lat·ing. Related Words for isolating disengage, confine, disconnect, divide, separate, insulate, remove, segregate, sequester, detach, seclude, divorce, abstract, part, sunder, quarantine, sever, island Examples from the Web for isolating Contemporary Examples of isolating

Identifying patients with an infection, isolating them, and providing quality care, are the key methods needed to stop Ebola.

Why New York’s Ebola Case Will Hurt Infected Patients Everywhere

Abby Haglage

October 24, 2014

Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating.

Twin visions of Islamic Feminism Split Muslim Community

Shaheen Pasha

September 21, 2014

She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition.

The Woman Stuck in a Navy SEAL’s Body

Nina Strochlic

September 4, 2014

So would allowing women a greater role as decision-makers in the Church rather than isolating them further.

The Secret Pope Francis Haters

Barbie Latza Nadeau

March 11, 2014

How the medical community is cutting out abortion training and isolating the very doctors that women need most.

The Medical Community’s Hidden Abortion-Training War

Abigail Golden

February 27, 2014

Historical Examples of isolating

At least there are difficulties in isolating anything we can call love of race.

The Psychology of Nations

G.E. Partridge

They have succeeded in isolating the bacillus leprae and studying it.

The House of Pride

Jack London

The temper of the age in fact was changing, and isolating her as it changed.

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8)

John Richard Green

The self-sufficingness of Stoicism is essentially inhuman and isolating.

Expositions of Holy Scripture

Alexander Maclaren

I take forty Bees, isolating them, as usual, in screws of paper.

The Mason-bees

J. Henri Fabre

British Dictionary definitions for isolating isolating adjective

1. linguistics another word for analytic

isolate verb (ˈaɪsəˌleɪt) (tr)

1. to place apart; cause to be alone
2. med to quarantine (a person or animal) having or suspected of having a contagious disease
3. to obtain (a compound) in an uncombined form
4. to obtain pure cultures of (bacteria, esp those causing a particular disease)
5. electronics to prevent interaction between (circuits, components, etc); insulate

noun (ˈaɪsəlɪt)

6. an isolated person or group

Derived Formsisolable, adjectiveisolability, nounisolator, nounWord Origin for isolate C19: back formation from isolated, via Italian from Latin insulātus, literally: made into an island; see insulate Word Origin and History for isolating isolate v.

by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.).

The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed. [“The British Critic,” April 1799]

As a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819).

isolating in Medicine isolate [ī′sə-lāt′] v.

1. To set apart or cut off from others.
2. To place in quarantine.
3. To separate a pure strain from a mixed bacterial or fungal culture.
4. To separate or remove a chemical substance out of a combined mixture.
5. To separate experiences or memories from the emotions relating to them.

n.

1. A bacterial or fungal strain that has been isolated.

Related formsi′so•la′tor n.