To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread. You don't have to isolate them from the community
{f} seclude, set apart, separate; separate one who is sick from others who are healthy, quarantine (Medicine); extract, remove a pure substance from one that is impure (Chemistry)
place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound" separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
a group of organisms isolated, or separated, from a specimen; in an M tuberculosis isolate, the organisms have been identified as M tuberculosis (a positive culture for M tuberculosis)
To raise with the intention of thinning the field to yourself and a single other player is to isolate that player I raised to isolate him, but ended up getting three callers
To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies
Separation of an aroma chemical from an essential oil via distillation (mechanically) or hydrolysis (chemically), or by other partitioning methods Example - Eugenol ex Clove Leaf
If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people. When he was thinking out a problem Tweed's habit was never to isolate himself in his room His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served But of course no one lives totally alone, isolated from the society around them. = cut off
If you isolate something such as an idea or a problem, you separate it from others that it is connected with, so that you can concentrate on it or consider it on its own. Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories Gandhi said that those who isolate religion from politics don't understand the nature of either
To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters. This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council Political influence is being used to shape public opinion and isolate critics. + isolated iso·lat·ed They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession. + isolation iso·la·tion Diplomatic isolation could lead to economic disaster