isolated Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb place or set apart
   isolate; insulate.
   
   • They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates
2. verb obtain in pure form
   isolate.
   
   • The chemist managed to isolate the compound
3. verb set apart from others
   sequester; set apart; isolate; keep apart; sequestrate.
   
   • The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
4. verb separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
   isolate.
   
5. adjective satellite not close together in time
   stray.
   
   • isolated instances of rebellion
   • a few stray crumbs
6. adjective satellite being or feeling set or kept apart from others
   separated; set-apart; detached.
   
   • 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
7. adjective satellite marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
   disjunct.
   
   • little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
8. adjective satellite cut off or left behind
   marooned; stranded.
   
   • an isolated pawn
   • several stranded fish in a tide pool
   • travelers marooned by the blizzard
9. adjective satellite under forced isolation especially for health reasons
   quarantined.
   
   • a quarantined animal
   • isolated patients
10. adjective satellite remote and separate physically or socially
    obscure; apart.
    
    • 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

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