insulate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material
    • We had his bedroom insulated before winter came
  2. verb place or set apart
    isolate.
    • They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates

WordNet

In"su*late transitive verb
Etymology
L. insulatus insulated, fr. insula island. See Isle, and cf. Isolate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Insulated ; present participle & verbal noun Insulating
Definitions
  1. To make an island of. Obs. Pennant.
  2. To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.
  3. (Elec. & Thermotics) To prevent the transfer o electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.

Webster 1913