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Isolate vs Isotonic - What's the difference?

isolate | isotonic |

As a verb isolate

is to set apart or cut off from others.

As a noun isolate

is something that has been isolated.

As an adjective isotonic is

having the same osmotic pressure.

isolate

English

Verb

  • (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= 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.}}
  • To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
  • (label) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that has been isolated.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    isotonic

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of two solutions) having the same osmotic pressure
  • (of a medical solution) Having the same concentration of solutes as human blood.
  • Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.
  • (of two muscles) having equal tension
  • (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle changes. Antonym is isometric. Isotonic movements are either concentric (working muscle shortens) or eccentric (working muscle lengthens). See also
  • See also

    * hypotonic * hypertonic