insulate
verb (used with object)
to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound.
uninsulated
-
a word derived from
insulate.
Example Sentences
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Its program to eliminate uninsulated wire in fire zones has covered more than 1,200 miles of line so far.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, there are approximately 76,000 containers of ethanol specimens, mostly stored in a World War-II-era Quonset hut, which is made from corrugated steel and is uninsulated.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023
A spool of cable is what you see at the home center, and here in the USA it normally will contain two insulated wires and an uninsulated bare copper ground wire.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
Three, if you must spend fifty hours in an uninsulated attic in Maine, spring is probably the best time of year to do it.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
