Definitions for isolating

Overview of verb isolate

The verb isolate has 4 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (12) isolate, insulate

(place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates")

2. (3) isolate

(obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound")

3. (2) sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate

(set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on")

4. isolate

(separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them)

Overview of adj isolating

The adj isolating has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. isolating

(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)