American English pronunciation
How to pronounce isolating
IPA transcription: ['aɪsə,leɪtɪŋ]
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Verb
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place or set apart
“They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates”
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obtain in pure form
“The chemist managed to isolate the compound”
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set apart from others
“The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on”
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separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
Adjective
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relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
Usage examples
- Goemai is a predominantly isolating language with the subject-verb-object constituent order.
- This knowledge is fundamental for isolating alkaloids and active pharmacological principles.
- Warming also acts to increase ocean stratification, isolating the surface ocean from deeper waters.