Isolated

5 definitions found

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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     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.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "isolated":
     abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous,
     anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm,
     cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off,
     cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected,
     discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct,
     dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided,
     divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional,
     excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken,
     friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed,
     impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable,
     incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular,
     insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island,
     island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted,
     isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic,
     other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific,
     particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy,
     quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful,
     reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off,
     scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate,
     segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
     set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular,
     smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish,
     stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil,
     unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided,
     unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected,
     undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved,
     unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded,
     unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
     withdrawn
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  isolated
       
          {compact}