What is the difference between desolate and isolate?
desolate | isolate |
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
* Bible, Jer. ix. 11
* Tennyson
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
Dismal or dreary.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
* Keble
To deprive of inhabitants.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
(label) To set apart or cut off from others.
(label) To place in quarantine or isolation.
(senseid) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
(label) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
(label) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
As verbs the difference between desolate and isolate
is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while isolate is to set apart or cut off from others.As an adjective desolate
is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As a noun isolate is
something that has been isolated.desolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
- I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate
Verb
(desolat)External links
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English
Verb
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}