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Adjective isolated has 6 senses
  1. isolated, scattered, stray - not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
    Antonym: continual (indirect, via sporadic)
  2. detached, isolated, separated, set-apart - 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"
    Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
  3. disjunct, isolated - 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
    Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
  4. isolated, marooned, stranded - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
    Antonyms: accompanied, attended (indirect, via unaccompanied)
  5. isolated, quarantined - under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
    Antonym: integrated (indirect, via segregated)
  6. apart, isolated, obscure - 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"
    Antonym: connected (indirect, via unconnected)
,Verb isolate has 4 senses
  1. isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
    --1 is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
    Derived form: noun isolation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. isolate - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
    --2 is one way to     get, acquire
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
    --3 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. isolate - separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
    --4 is one way to     classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
    Derived form: noun isolation5
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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