Insulated vs Detached - What's the difference?
insulated | detached | 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)
Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else.
Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
(detach)
Insulated is a related term of detached.
As adjectives the difference between insulated and detached
is that insulated is protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material while detached is of a house: not joined to another house on either side.As verbs the difference between insulated and detached
is that insulated is (insulate) while detached is (detach).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.
