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Isolated

Definition: Isolated

Isolated

Adjective

1. Not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh".

2. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling".

3. Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly.

4. Cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard".

5. Under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients".

6. Remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "isolated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Isolated

DomainDefinition

Computing

Isolated compact. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Isolated

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
ISPEnglishIsolated soy proteinateFood & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Isolated

Synonyms: apart(p) (adj), detached (adj), disjunct (adj), marooned (adj), obscure (adj), quarantined (adj), scattered (adj), separated (adj), set-apart (adj), stranded (adj), stray (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Isolated

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disjunction

Adjective: disjoined; Verb: discontinuous; abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; Verb: insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.

Irrelation

Adjective: irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.

Seclusion Exclusion

Solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.

Unity

Unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated; (disjoined); insular.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Isolated

English words defined with "isolated": Acnode, actinomycin, Albert Camus, allopatric, alone, apart, Asiatic flubackwater, Brahui, bursa omentaliscallus, Camus, Cetyl, chain, colligation, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, compartmented, composed, conservation of energy, conservation of mass, conservation of matter, corkwood family, cortical epilepsy, creep feed, cut up, Cyanic acidDaniel Rutherford, detached, detail, disjunct, Double pointErnst Boris Chainfamily Leitneriaceae, first law of thermodynamics, Florey, focal epilepsy, Franz KafkaGay-Lussac, genus Odontophorus, gibberellin, Globuliferous, GlucinumHoward Florey, hyponitrous acid, hypophosphoric acidIndophenol, inmarry, insular, insulate, Insulated, isolable, isolate, Isolatedly, itemJoseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Joseph PriestleyKafka, Kochlaw of conservation of energy, law of conservation of mass, law of conservation of matter, Leitneriaceae, lesser peritoneal cavity, lone, lonesomemarooned, Meride, Mesam/boid, Millikanobscure, Odontophorus, omental bursa, only, order Sphagnalespenicillin F, point, PriestleyRobert Andrews Millikan, Robert Koch, rutherfordsegregated, separated, set-apart, Sinapine, Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey, sole, solitary, spectrum line, Sphagnales, strandeduncompartmented, unintegrated. (references)
Specialty definitions using "isolated": isolated word recognizer. (references)
Etymologies containing "isolated": isolate. (references)

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Modern Usage: Isolated

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Sir! Sir, I've isolated the reverse, power flux coupling (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Well, apart from Simon's isolated lapse - which he's told me all about and I've forgiven (A Bit of a Do; writing credit: David Nobbs)

Lyrics

I FEEL ISOLATED, DON'T WANT TO COMMUNICATE (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints)

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Commercial Usage: Isolated

DomainTitle

Books

  • Biotransformations in Preparative Organic Chemistry: The Use of Isolated Enzymes and Whole Cell Systems in Synthesis (Best Synthetic Methods) (reference)

  • Design of Seismic Isolated Structures: From Theory to Practice (reference)

  • Excavations in Jerusalem 1961-1967: The Iron Age Cave Deposits on the South-East Hill and Isolated Burials and Cemeteries Elsewhere (British Academy) (reference)

  • Isolated Houses (reference)

  • Monodromy Groups Groups of Isolated Singularities of Complete Intersections (reference)

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Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Isolated

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Photo Album: Isolated

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Several shots of a scientist in a laboratory setting, wearing a white coat and performing a test. Only his hands are visible in some of the photos. The scientist is sorting B-cells taken from the bone marrow of a patient with Lupus disease. The Lupus antibody-producing cell is isolated in a well, to be fused with a cancerous mouse myeloma B-cell, producing a hybridoma. Hybridomas produce identical monoclonal antibodies in large quantities and indefinitely. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

DNA taken from the genes of human cells has been cleaved into small fragments by enzymes. The small DNA pieces are isolated by electropheresis onto an agarose gel plate. Scientist use this technique to identify and study genes. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Two spirochetes bound to a 0.2 µm filter. Strain RGA was isolated in 1915 by Uhlenhuth and Fromme from the blood of a soldier in Belgium. Credit: CDC.

Machupo Virus is a member of the Arenavirus family, isolated in the Beni province of Bolivia in 1963; Viral hemorrhagic Fever. Credit: CDC.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has discovered a new population of stars isolated deep ... Credit: NASA.

Isolated mangrove on a sandy beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Isolated severe thunderstorm. Main updraft core is in the background, storm anvil is in upper foreground. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Isolated tufted corals are common on the deep rocky slope off Hawaii. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 42. Hopfgartner and Arzberger sounder, devised by Lieutenant Franz von Hopfgartner of the Austrian Merchant Marine and Moriz Arzberger, a civil enginee r, this apparatus used the same principle as aneroid barometers which utilized the pressure difference between a wall, isolated or not, and the exterior medium . It was tested in 1876 in the Gulf of Trieste in depths up to 17 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Experience with TIROS showed that bright clouds with relatively well-defined edges and isolated from a main cloud mass, could be indicators of severe weather Shortly after this photograph, the southernmost cloud spawned a tornado. TIROS I, orbit 820. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Isolated
 

"Isolated christmas amaryllis" by Jim Robinson
Commentary: "A isolated shot of a blooming christmas amaryllis. Some minor color adjustment. ** if you download, please leave a comment, I would love to know what I'm doing right or wrong. I'm new at this photog thing."
"_DOCKBAY:37" by Janus R. Sørensen
Commentary: "The beauty of underground locations have always been a prime target of facination for me. I constantly find my self drawn to secluded and isolated urban areas. The stable and hypnotic pulse of electrical generators. The subtle and distant sounds of p"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Isolated

AuthorQuotation

Friedrich Schlegel

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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Historic Usage: Isolated

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Germany hereby agrees to renounce in favour of the Czecho-Slovak State all rights and title over the part of the Kreis of Leobschutz comprised within the following boundaries in case after the determination of the frontier between Germany and Poland the said part of that Kreis should become isolated from Germany: from the south-eastern extremity of the salient of the former Austrian frontier at about 5 kilometres to the west of Leobschutz southwards and up to the point of junction with the boundary between the Kreise of Leobschutz and Ratibor: the former frontier between Germany and Austria-Hungary; then, northwards, the administrative boundary between the Kreise of Leobschutz and Ratibor up to a point situated about 2 kilometres to the south-east of Katscher; thence, north-westwards and up to the starting-point of this definition: a line to be fixed on the spot passing to the east of Katscher, ARTICLE 84. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Isolated

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He fulfilled his duties as mayor, but beyond that his life was isolated.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Isolated

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

If a culture isolated is lysed by specific bacteriophage. (references)

Of the more than 30 isolated strains, three or four infect humans. (references)

The virus has also been isolated from a variety of mammal species. (references)

Business

For decades, there were only isolated cases of foreign ACE firms involved in major local projects. (references)

New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and the ACT have so far joined the NEM. Isolated transmission grids remain in Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. (references)

Children

Hungary

Child prostitution is not a common practice, although isolated incidents exist. (references)

Russia

Attention continued to focus on the status of orphans and those children with disabilities who have been removed from mainstream society and isolated in state institutions. (references)

Papua New Guinea

However, preliminary, small-scale studies indicate that this situation has changed over the last decade, especially in areas where households have become isolated from the extended family support system and depend on the cash economy for a livelihood. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

Such incidents appeared to be isolated. (references)

Fiji

The police treated them as isolated incidents; and, by year's end, no arrests had been made. (references)

Dominican Republic

The National Union of Press Workers reported isolated instances of mistreatment of members of the press. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

Nepal remains isolated from the world's major land, air and sea transport routes. (references)

India

The Indian government has been able to maintain law and order in all but a few isolated areas. (references)

Peru

Radio has the largest audience of all communications media, reaching even the most isolated populations. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

There were also isolated allegations of torture by electric shock. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Other rural villages under full Israeli control are further isolated from major Palestinian population centers. (references)

Italy

In July during the G-8 Conference in Genoa, a violent mob attacked an isolated jeep with three police officers inside. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

Many indigenous people are isolated from modern civilization and lack access to basic health and educational facilities. (references)

Peru

Isolated primarily along the Ene River in Junin department, the terrorist group continued to coerce indigenous peasants into joining its ranks and to demand war taxes. (references)

Sri Lanka

The country's indigenous people, known as Veddas, number fewer than l,000. Some prefer to maintain their isolated traditional way of life, and they are protected by the Constitution. (references)

Minorities

Romania

Minority religious groups allege that the Orthodox clergy have provoked isolated mob incidents. (references)

Poland

Individuals of African, Asian, or Arab descent also reported isolated incidents of verbal, physical and other types of abuse. (references)

Nepal

Hindus who convert to another religion may face isolated incidents of hostility or discrimination from Hindu extremist groups. (references)

Political Economy

Greece

There was a report of an isolated police killing of a Rom. (references)

Vietnam

Prison conditions remain harsh, particularly in some isolated provinces. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Isolated instances of political, ethnic, or religious killings continued. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

The mandate of the caretaker Government was to oversee the holding of the elections within 90 days of the dissolution of Parliament and to manage the day-to-day operations of the Government until the next Prime Minister took office on October 10. Domestic and international observers deemed the general election held on October 1 to be generally free and fair, in spite of sporadic violence and isolated irregularities. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

However, sanitary regulations are clearly used as a tool to keep poultry from being imported into the country and have been applied to other products in isolated cases. (references)

Travel

Honduras

Jewelry should not be worn in downtown or isolated areas. (references)

Women

Mauritania

Traditional forms of mistreatment of women continued, mostly in isolated rural communities, but these practices appeared to be on the decline. (references)

Kuwait

Several cases of rape involved the culprits impersonating police or security officers and luring women to isolated areas on the pretext of arresting them. (references)

France

Unlike the isolated past case of female genital mutilation (FGM) reported in 1999, there were no reports during the year of FGM, which is criticized widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references)

Worker Rights

Bulgaria

The women typically are taken to a large town, isolated, beaten, and subjected to severe physical and psychological torture. (references)

Japan

Employers often isolated the women, subjected them to constant surveillance, and used violence to punish them for disobedience. (references)

Taiwan

Once in Taiwan, they were kept isolated, their passports held, and they were threatened with violence if they did not cooperate. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games: His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them. In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Isolated

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953At a time when massive changes are occurring with lightning speed throughout the world, it is often difficult to perceive how this central objective is best served in one isolated complex situation or another.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969The radical extremism of their Government has isolated the Chinese people behind their own borders.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001An isolated China is not good for America.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Isolated

"Isolated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Isolated" is used about 2,811 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.96%2,8103,293
Lexical Verb (past tense)0.04%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,811N/A

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Expression: Isolated

Expressions using "isolated": atomic, consistant, isolated and durable become isolated equivalent isolated single wheel load get isolated isolated hepatic perfusion isolated limb perfusion isolated lung perfusion isolated node isolated person Isolated point of a curve isolated word recognizer isolated zone. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "isolated": isolated-word.

Ending with "isolated": matrix-isolated.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Isolated

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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23

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19

i i isolated mapped memory o o vs

3

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17

isolated wetlands

3

ground isolated

17

isolated beach

3

catalina isolated santa wave

10

hepatic isolated perfusion

3

isolated outpost

8

child isolated

3

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7

intersection isolated signalized timing

3

isolated storm t

6

isolated ground receptacle

2

converter dc dc isolated

6

isolated organic protein soy

2

isolated storm thunder

5

child feel isolated

2

isolated soy protein

5

isolated pain throat

2

cinch isolated

4

isolated power supply

2

bar ground isolated

4

hated isolated tragic wife

2

opto isolated

4

conditioner isolated signal

2

conditioning galvanic isolated

4

hospital isolated power

2

conditioner isolated line

4

isolated male recognition word

2

isolated scattered thunderstorm

2
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Modern Translation: Isolated

Language Translations for "isolated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

afsonderlik (apart, particular, secluded, separate, special). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

izoluar (secluded), i veçuar (dangling, detached, individual, lonely, out of the way, retired, secluded, segregate, separate, several, single), i izoluar (closed, confined, secluded, sequestered). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مفصول, ‏مفروز (separated), ‏منعزل (bleak, downcast, hideaway, insulate, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, quiet, recluse, retired, secluded, separate, separated, shy, solitary, withdrawn), ‏متقوقع (confined, solitary), ‏متوحد (alone, lone, lonely, recluse, reclusive, secluded, solitary), ‏معزول (outlying, removed, secluded, segregate, separated, set apart, set aside, shut off, straggler), ‏مبعد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

усамотен (lonely, private, remote, retired, secluded, solitary, unfrequented), изолиран (incommunicado, insular, private, secluded, separate, shut in). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

隔绝 (isolating), (large rope, to ask, to demand, to exact, to search), 孤立 (isolate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

izolovaný (incommunicado, secluded, solitary), osamocený (alone). (various references)

   

Danish

  

fritliggende (detached). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geïsoleerd (remote, secluded), alleenstaand (living alone, secluded, single). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

izola (secluded). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

irrallinen (detached, disconnected, irregular, loose, separate). (various references)

   

French

  

isolé (isolated person). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

frijesteand (secluded), allinnesteand (secluded). (various references)

   

German

  

abgesondert (apart, apart (from), incommunicado, particular, secluded, secreted, separate, separated, special). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απομονωμένοσ (detached, incommunicado, secluded, sequestered), απομονωμένος (secluded). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

izoluar (secluded). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מיותם (lonely, orphaned), מובדל (separated), מבודד (insulated, lone, secluded), בדול (differentiation, distinction), נבדל (different, discrete, distinct, separate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elszigetelt (recluse). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tersisih (ignored, set apart), terpulaukan, terpulau. (various references)

   

Italian

  

isolato (block, detached, insulated, lone, lonely, private, remote, secluded, solitary). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遠隔 (distant, remote). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

えんかく (development, distant, history, remote). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

고립시키는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

fadaneagh (boorish, out of the way, recluse, remote, solitary, unfrequented; boor, wild, wild as terrain), er lheh (aloof, aside, certain, distinctive, fancy, patented, private and confidential, respective; privately, separate, separately, special, specially), currit liorish hene. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isolateday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

isolado (alone, cloistered, cloistral, insulator, lone, lonesome, particular, recluse, secluded, separate, sequestered, sole, solitary, special, sporadic, straggling, strayed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

izolat (apart, detached, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, remote, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, seclusive, segregate, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), tainic (close, cover, covert, dark, hidden, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, intimate, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, obscure, private, privy, quiet, secret, stealthy), singuratic (desolate, forlorn, lone, lone wolf, lonely, loner, one-aloner, recluse, remote, seclusive, secret, single, solitary), singur (a, alone, by, by oneself, herself, himself, itself, lone, lonely, lonesome, mateless, naked, only, single, sole, solely, solitary, solo, yourself, yourselves), separat (apart, asunder, detached, discrete, distinct, divided, dividual, independently, segregate, separated, separately, severally, single). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отдельный (detached, discrete, distinct, dividual, individual, peculiar, scattered, segregate, separate, several, single, stand-alone), изолировать изолированный (insulated, quarantined), изолированный (secluded, separate, sequestered). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izolovan (discrete, incommunicado, lonely), zabačen (godforsaken, out of the way, outlying, remote, removed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

solitario (alone, desolate, lone, lonely, lonesome, obscure, patience, recluse, seclusive, solitaire, solitary), caso único, aislado (abandonee, cut off, detached, insulated, lonely, off the beaten track, one off, outlying, private, remote, secluded, segregated, separate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

isolerad (incommunicado, insular, insulated, secluded, shut), avskild (detached, insular, private, secluded, separate). (various references)

   

Thai

  

โดดเดี่ยว (isolate, lone, sequester, sole). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yalnız (alone, by yourself, exclusively, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, merely, on one's tod, only, private, single handed, singly, sole, solitarily, solitary, unaccompanied, unattended), yalıtılmış, soyutlanmış (abstracted, out on a limb), ayrılmış (booked, disjointed, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, reserved, segregate, set apart, set aside, split), ayrı (aloof, another, apart, aside, detachedly, discontinuous, discrete, dissimilar, distanced, distinct, divergent, divided, especial, hetero-, segregate, separate, unconnected), ıssız (desert, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, retired, solitary, stark, unfrequented, uninhabited, void, waste, widowed, wild). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зetleюmek (be isolated, insulated). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ізольований (insular, insulated), окремий (detached, discriminate, distinct, especial, individual, particular, partitive, private, self contained, separate, single). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Isolated

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

semotus. (various references)

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Misspellings: Isolated

Misspellings

"Isolated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gislaved, imolated, iolate, Isamatec, isolatede, isonate, opto, solated. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Isolated"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "isolated" (pronounced ī"sulā'tud)
7-s u l ā' t u dencapsulated, insulated.
6-u l ā' t u daccumulated, annihilated, articulated, assimilated, calculated, capitulated, circulated, congratulated, correlated, crenelated, interpolated, emulated, escalated, extrapolated, flagellated, formulated, inoculated, manipulated, miscalculated, mutilated, nonregulated, overregulated, populated, recalculated, reformulated, regulated, simulated, speculated, stimulated, stipulated, tabulated, titillated, unregulated, ventilated.
5-l ā' t u dangulated, contemplated, legislated, emasculated.
4-ā' t u dabrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, abbreviated, abdicated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alienated, alleviated, allocated, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, animated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, aspirated, assassinated, associated, attenuated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, caffeinated, calibrated, captivated, carbonated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, chlorinated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, constipated, consummated, contaminated, cooperated, corroborated, corrugated, culminated, cultivated, deactivated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, delineated, demonstrated, denigrated, denominated, depreciated, desegregated, designated, deteriorated, detonated, devaluated, devastated, deviated, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, laminated, levitated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, discriminated, disintegrated, disseminated, dissipated, domesticated, dominated, donated, duplicated, educated, elevated, eliminated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emigrated, enumerated, enunciated, eradicated, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, excoriated, exhilarated, exonerated, expropriated, exterminated, extricated, fabricated, facilitated, fascinated, federated, fixated, fluctuated, frustrated, generated, germinated, glaciated, graduated, gravitated, gyrated, halogenated, hesitated, humiliated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impersonated, implicated, impregnated, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, indoctrinated, infatuated, infiltrated, infuriated, initiated, innovated, instigated, integrated, mandated, marinated, masturbated, mediated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, necessitated, negotiated, nominated, obligated, obliterated, officiated, operated, opinionated, orchestrated, orientated, originated, outdated, overestimated, overstated, oxygenated, participated, penetrated, perforated, permeated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pollinated, pontificated, precipitated, predicated, predominated, prefabricated, premeditated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, punctuated, radiated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, reciprocated, recreated, redecorated, reevaluated, refrigerated, regenerated, rehabilitated, reincarnated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, rejuvenated, relegated, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, repatriated, replicated, repudiated, resonated, resuscitated, retaliated, reverberated, rotated, ruminated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, situated, sophisticated, stagnated, stalemated, subjugated, subordinated, substantiated, suffocated, syncopated, syndicated, terminated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, underestimated, understated, undifferentiated, uneducated, unincorporated, uninitiated, unmitigated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, unsubstantiated, venerated.
3-t u dabstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Isolated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: diastole, sodalite.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-s-t"

-1 letter: details, dilates, iodates, isolate, isolead, solated, toadies.

-2 letters: aisled, aldose, deasil, delist, deltas, desalt, detail, dilate, distal, eidola, ideals, idlest, iodate, ladies, lasted, listed, oldest, oldies, osteal, sailed, salted, saltie, siloed, silted, slated, soiled, solate, staled, stelai, stoled, stolid, tailed, tildes, todies, toiled, toiles.

-3 letters: adios, adits, aides, ailed, aisle, alist, aloes, altos.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: delations, diastoles, dislocate, dovetails, estradiol, idolaters, insolated, outsailed, sodalites, spoliated, steroidal, totalised.

 

+2 letters: asteroidal, dealations, deflations, defoliants, defoliates, desolating, desolation, diplomates, dislocated, dislocates, editorials, estradiols, idolatries, metalloids, mislocated, modalities, nodalities, oscillated, petalodies, planetoids, sodalities.

 

+3 letters: absolutized, allantoides, colatitudes, consolidate, defoliators, delegations, delineators, depilations, desalinator, desolations, devotionals, disrelation, elucidators, fluoridates, gadolinites, galactoside, inosculated, pentaploids, tetraploids, volatilised.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Abbreviations
20. Acronyms
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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