Adjective

(en adjective)

Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

Placed or set apart.

an insulated house or column

* De Quincey

the special and insulated situation of the Jews

(of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.

Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.

(astronomy, dated) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.

Adjective

(en adjective)

By oneself, solitary.

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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18

*:It is not good that the man should be alone .

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Apart from, or exclusive of, others.

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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)

*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.

Considered separately.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

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Without equal.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor

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(lb) Unique; rare; matchless.

:(Shakespeare)