Insolate vs Isolate - What's the difference?
insolate | isolate |
To dry in, or expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.
(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.
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, 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 insolate and isolate
is that insolate is to dry in, or expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure while isolate is (label) to set apart or cut off from others.As a noun isolate is
something that has been isolated.insolate
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(insolat)- (Johnson)
isolate
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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.}}