isolate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that has been isolated.
    — We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates.
动词 v.
  1. To set apart or cut off from others. transitive
    — By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.
  2. To place in quarantine or isolation. transitive
  3. To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture. transitive
    — To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.
  4. To insulate, or make free of external influence. transitive
    — One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
  5. To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture. transitive
  6. To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity. transitive
  7. To self-isolate. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. isolated. literary,not-comparable
    — He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.

词形变化

isolates present,singular,third-person isolating participle,present isolated participle,past isolated past isolates plural

词源

词源 1
Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
词源 2
Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
词源 3
Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
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