Insulated vs Confined - What's the difference?
insulated | confined | Related terms |
Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
Placed or set apart.
* De Quincey
(of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
(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.
(insulate)
(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
Insulated is a related term of confined.
As adjectives the difference between insulated and confined
is that insulated is protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material while confined is not free to move.As verbs the difference between insulated and confined
is that insulated is (insulate) while confined is (confine).insulated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an insulated house or column
- the special and insulated situation of the Jews
- Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*confined
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
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Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
