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English verb: isolate | |||
| 1. | isolate (change) place or set apart | ||
| Samples | They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates. | ||
| Synonyms | insulate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | discriminate, separate, single out | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cloister, ghettoise, ghettoize, maroon, quarantine, seclude, segregate, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw | ||
| 2. | isolate (change) obtain in pure form | ||
| Samples | The chemist managed to isolate the compound. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | acquire, get | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | preisolate | ||
| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry | ||
| 3. | isolate (change) set apart from others | ||
| Samples | The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on. | ||
| Synonyms | keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disunite, divide, part, separate | ||
| 4. | isolate (cognition) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out | ||
| Domain category | psychological science, psychology | ||
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