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. (

• isolated ,
• stray

) not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" ;

2. (

• detached ,
• isolated ,
• separated ,
• set-apart

) 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. (

• disjunct ,
• isolated ,

) 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. (

• isolated ,
• marooned ,
• stranded

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

5. (

• isolated ,
• quarantined

) under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" ;

6. (

• apart ,
• isolated ,
• obscure

) 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" ;