0 to separate something from other things with which it is connected or mixed:
1 to separate something from other things, or to keep something separate:
2 to separate something or someone from other things or people with which they are joined are mixed, or to keep them separate:
We need to isolate the problem with our product distribution.
3 to keep a company or country from doing business in the usual way:
Two hours after the first injection, fetal thymi were isolated by dissection and single-cell suspensions prepared by passing the thymocytes through cell strainers.
All positive homing products were isolated and sequenced to verify the deletion.
The sign is broken free of any referential function and isolated from history.
The criterion of identification advanced here does not have a role that is strictly isolated, only of use in the philosophy of mind.
In "a state of crisis, of transition", he is isolated, removed from family.
Intuitively one would think that isolating the subject together with the imprinting stimulus provides the best rearing condition if one wants to imprint a duckling.
The vulgar isolated single sounds from words; they observed that these sounds had universal value throughout the whole language.
Additionally, we queried the conventional interpretation of the bipolar factor isolated in many factor analysis studies as contrasting 'endogenous' and 'neurotic' depression.