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ISOLATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does isolated mean?
• ISOLATED (adjective)
The adjective ISOLATED has 6 senses:
1. not close together in time
2. being or feeling set or kept apart from others
3. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
4. cut off or left behind
5. under forced isolation especially for health reasons
6. remote and separate physically or socially
Familiarity information: ISOLATED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not close together in time
Synonyms:
isolated; stray
Context example:
a few stray crumbs
Similar:
sporadic (recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Synonyms:
detached; isolated; separated; set-apart
Context example:
had a set-apart feeling
Similar:
separate (independent; not united or joint)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Synonyms:
disjunct; isolated
Context example:
little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara
Similar:
separate (independent; not united or joint)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cut off or left behind
Synonyms:
Context example:
travelers marooned by the blizzard
Similar:
unaccompanied (being without an escort)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Synonyms:
isolated; quarantined
Context example:
isolated patients
Similar:
segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Remote and separate physically or socially
Synonyms:
Context example:
an obscure village
Similar:
unconnected (not joined or linked together)
Context examples
The researchers have identified and isolated cells within different cancerous growths which we call the "cell of origin".
(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This permitted the retrieval of pristine water and sediment samples that had been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.
(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)
Dendritic cells are isolated from the patient’s blood, engineered to express antigens from the tumor, and then injected back into the patient as a vaccine.
(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)
In previous work, they isolated broadly neutralizing antibodies from people and produced them in the lab.
(HIV Immunotherapy Promising in First Human Study, NIH)
They often separated from each other and took their chances travelling in small pockets of isolated groups.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
M. oblonga has been isolated from the oral cavity of a sheep.
(Moraxella oblonga, NCI Thesaurus)
M. lincolnii has been isolated from humans with respiratory infections.
(Moraxella lincolnii, NCI Thesaurus)
A naturally occurring substance isolated from the seeds of the plant Ammi majus with photoactivating properties.
(Methoxsalen, NCI Thesaurus)
Lunar swirls can be tens of miles across and appear in groups or just as an isolated feature.
(NASA Research Gives New Insights into How the Moon Got 'Inked', NASA)
A pyrrolo(1,4)benzodiazepine antineoplastic antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces refuineus var. thermotolerans.
(Anthramycin, NCI Thesaurus)
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