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English Dictionary: isolated	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for isolated
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
isolated adj not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" Synonym(s): isolated, stray being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "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" Synonym(s): detached, isolated, separated, set- apart marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly Synonym(s): disjunct, isolated cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" Synonym(s): isolated, marooned, stranded under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" Synonym(s): isolated, quarantined remote and separate physically or socially; "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" Synonym(s): apart(p), isolated, obscure
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Isolated \I"sola`ted\, a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. {Isolated* point of a curve}. (Geom.) See {Acnode}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Isolate \I"solate\ (?; 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
isolated {compact}