· place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

Synonym(s): insulate

Hypernym(s): discriminate, separate, single_out

· obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"

Hypernym(s): get, acquire

· set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"

Synonym(s): sequester, sequestrate, keep_apart, set_apart

Hypernym(s): separate, disunite, divide, part

· separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

Hypernym(s): classify, class, sort, assort, sort_out, separate

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

Synonym(s): stray

· 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"

Synonym(s): detached, separated, set-apart

· 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

Synonym(s): disjunct

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

Synonym(s): marooned, stranded

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

Synonym(s): quarantined

· 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"

Synonym(s): apart, obscure