Isolate vs Nonisolate - What's the difference?
isolate | nonisolate |
(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 nouns the difference between isolate and nonisolate
is that isolate is something that has been isolated while nonisolate is one who, or that which, is not an isolate.As a verb isolate
is (label) to set apart or cut off from others.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.}}