1. (

• isolate ,
• insulate

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

2. (

• isolate ,

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

3. (

• 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 ;

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 ;