isolate
pronunciation
How to pronounce isolate in British English:
UK [ˈaɪsəleɪt]
How to pronounce isolate in American English:
US [ˈaɪsəleɪt]
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- Verb:
- place or set apart
- obtain in pure form
- set apart from others
- separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
Word Origin
- isolate (v.)
- by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.). The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed. ["The British Critic," April 1799] As a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819).
Example
- 1. In part this drive to isolate the country is deliberate .
- 2. Here again is the great irony of attempts to isolate alpha .
- 3. This is still a young science and it is hard to isolate all the effects .
- 4. She used clever statistical techniques to isolate the effect of global risk appetite on the gap between short - and long-dated us treasury yields .
- 5. More generally , mr. noda cannot afford to isolate japan any further .