From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Isolated \I"so*la`ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
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Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t;
277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare
to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and
cf. Insulate.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to
isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the
troublemakers in a classroom.
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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
--Bp.
Warburton.
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2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
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3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign
substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as,
to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.
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4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in
pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate
Eschericia coli from a patient's blood.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
isolated
compact