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Adjective isolating has 1 sense
- 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
Antonym: synthetic (indirect, via analytic)
Verb isolate has 4 senses
- isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
--1 is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- isolate - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
--2 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
--3 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- isolate - separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
--4 is one way to classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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