Definitions
place or set apart
Word origin
Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Used in a sentence
“By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.”
“To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.”
“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Set apart”7 letters
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