Definitions for isolating

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isolating i·so·lat·ing

Spelling: [ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh-]

IPA: /ˈaɪ səˌleɪ tɪŋ, ˈɪs ə-/

Isolating is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 530 anagrams from letters in isolating (agiilnost).

Definitions for isolating

noun

1. a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study.
2. Psychology. a person, often shy or lacking in social skills, who avoids the company of others and has no friends within a group.
3. Biology. an inbreeding population that is isolated from similar populations by physiological, behavioral, or geographic barriers.
4. Also called language isolate. Linguistics. a language with no demonstrable genetic relationship, as Basque.
5. something that has been isolated, as a by-product in a manufacturing process:

adjective

1. pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order. Compare agglutinative (def 2), inflectional (def 2).
2. isolated; alone.

verb (used with object)

1. to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
2. Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine.
3. Chemistry, Bacteriology. to obtain (a substance or microorganism) in an uncombined or pure state.
4. Electricity. to insulate.
5. Television. to single out (a person, action, etc.) for a camera closeup.

Origin of isolating

First recorded in 1855-60; isolate + -ing²

Examples for isolating

Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating.

At least there are difficulties in isolating anything we can call love of race.

The temper of the age in fact was changing, and isolating her as it changed.

How the medical community is cutting out abortion training and isolating the very doctors that women need most.

I take forty Bees, isolating them, as usual, in screws of paper.

They have succeeded in isolating the bacillus leprae and studying it.

Identifying patients with an infection, isolating them, and providing quality care, are the key methods needed to stop Ebola.

The self-sufficingness of Stoicism is essentially inhuman and isolating.

She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition.

So would allowing women a greater role as decision-makers in the Church rather than isolating them further.