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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Chem.) To separate 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Isolate \I"so*late\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Isolating.] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to
isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf.
Insulate.]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
--Bp.
Warburton.
2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make
pure; to obtain in a free state.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
isolating
adj : relating to or being a language in which each word typically
expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and
syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively
by word order and particles [syn: isolating(a)]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
a.
(lb en linguistics of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio
and no inflectional morphemes
vb.
(present participle of en isolate nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
a.
(lb en linguistics of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio
and no inflectional morphemes
vb.
(present participle of en isolate nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
a.
(lb en linguistics of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio
and no inflectional morphemes
vb.
(present participle of en isolate nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
a.
(lb en linguistics of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio
and no inflectional morphemes
vb.
(present participle of en isolate nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
Englanti a.
eristävä
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm i solat ing e)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
isolating
Engelska a.
(avledning en isolate ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb isolate)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Isolating /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ العزلFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
isolating /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]izolující
isolating /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ eingrenzend, einkreisend see: isolate, isolatedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
isolating /ˈaɪsəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ isolierend, vereinzelnd, trennend, absondernd see: isolate sb./sth., isolated, isolates, isolatedFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈaɪsəˌɫeɪtɪŋ/