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isolating
[ ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh- ]
adjective
- pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order. Compare agglutinative ( def 2 ), inflectional ( def 2 ).
isolating
/ ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪŋ /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of isolating1
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Example Sentences
Identifying patients with an infection, isolating them, and providing quality care, are the key methods needed to stop Ebola.
Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating.
She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition.
Getting my work done required isolating myself in the quietest corner of the library.
Were they to amend their posture, they would only be further isolating themselves.
I had succeeded without effort or trouble in almost isolating her from her former habits.
If you have been in love, you must have felt the need of isolating from this world the being in whom you would live wholly.
When we have succeeded in isolating a certain kind of bacterium in a given dish, we are said to have a pure culture.
Great Salt Lake has not been so effective in isolating the animals living on the islands as heretofore has been thought.
Why then are we astonished at this, since each man, isolating himself from the rest, consults only his own interest?
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