present participle of isolate

(linguistics, of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morpheme

(chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people. / The act of isolating.

(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others. / (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation. / (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

Something that has been isolated.

An electrical device that detects short circuits and isolates them. / A device that isolates something from the surrounding environment to keep it sterile.

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation. / Happening or occurring only once. / (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.

simple past tense and past participle of isolate

plural of isolate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of isolate