Isolates is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 379 anagrams from letters in isolates (aeilosst).
Definitions for isolates
noun
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a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
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Psychology. a person, often shy or lacking in social skills, who avoids the company of others and has no friends within a group.
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Biology. an inbreeding population that is isolated from similar populations by physiological, behavioral, or geographic barriers.
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Also called language isolate. Linguistics. a language with no demonstrable genetic relationship, as Basque.
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something that has been isolated, as a by-product in a manufacturing process:
adjective
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isolated; alone.
verb (used with object)
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to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
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Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine.
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Chemistry, Bacteriology. to obtain (a substance or microorganism) in an uncombined or pure state.
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Electricity. to insulate.
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Television. to single out (a person, action, etc.) for a camera closeup.
Origin of isolates
First recorded in 1800-10; back formation from isolated
Examples for isolates
It isolates, and makes contact and mutual understanding difficult.
This is the disintegrating power of a great wind: it isolates one from one's kind.
The stereotype is always racialized, which isolates contestants of color and makes them even less likely to win.
As the reach and functionality of the web becomes broader and more sophisticated, it both connects and isolates us.
This isolates them; so that there is no class to which they can be subordinated.
Instead of uniting her with the prayer of the Church it isolates her.
In France our tribune which isolates the orator has many advantages.
When the child repeats the sound he isolates it, and then accompanies it with the vowel.
It isolates the washing from the cooking, and the smell of washing from the whole house.
In How the Mighty Fall, Collins isolates what he sees as the five stages of institutional decline.