To keep one animal away from another for any reason

1to separate someone or something physically or socially from other people or things isolate somebody/yourself/something Patients with the disease should be isolated. isolate somebody/yourself/somethi [..]

"to set or place apart, to detach so as to make alone," by 1786, a back-formation from isolated (q.v.). The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few tr [..]

An individual part of an organism (such as a spore or a bacteria or virus) that has been separated (as from diseased tissue, contaminated water, or the air) from the whole.

to set one thing or organism apart from others.

v. To separate from others of its kind.

To restrict communication in both directions with a participant of the conference. [T1.647-1995]

1. An individual who is infrequently or never mentioned when group members report on whom they like in their group. 2. A member in a group with no or very few social and personal relations with other [..]

isolate (pop)

To remove a boiler, or any particular part or system of a boiler, form service by closing the manual valves.

(L: insula= island) to keep apart, to exclude. An isolated island like the Kermadec's Raoul Island, was a hard place to live. It was hard to get to in the first place, then to land on it, let alo [..]

A strain of a fungus brought into pure culture (i.e. isolated) from a specific environment.

A single substance or culture of microbes obtained in pure form from a mixture of substances or bacteria.

to separate Law

place apart; separate from others.

(v) place or set apart(v) obtain in pure form(v) set apart from others(v) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

Tight focus on an object or person.

a particular strain of HIV-1 taken from a person. back to top  

(verb): to separate a microorganism from host or substratum and establish it in pure culture; (noun): a single pure culture made by direct isolation from fresh material and any subcultures made from i [..]

A population of microbial cells in pure culture derived from a single colony on an isolation plate and identified to the species level.

A single species of a microorganism originating from a particular sample or environment, growing in a pure culture

(1) (of a hand) remove the last entry to the opposite hand

(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others. (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation. en|isolator