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Isolate vs Orphan - What's the difference?

isolate | orphan |

As verbs the difference between isolate and orphan

is that isolate is (label) to set apart or cut off from others while orphan is to deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive ).

As nouns the difference between isolate and orphan

is that isolate is something that has been isolated while orphan is a person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

As an adjective orphan is

deprived of parents (also (orphaned)).

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.

    • Related terms

    * insular * insulate * insulator * insulation * isolatable * isolated * isolating * isolation * isolationism * isolative * isolator

    Anagrams

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    orphan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  • * '>citation
  • A young animal with no mother.
  • (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's or decision to abandon.
  • (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  • (computing) Any unreferenced object.

    • Derived terms

    * orphanage * orphancy * orphandom * orphanhood * orphaner * orphanet * orphan initialism * orphanism * orphanity * orphanize * orphanotropism * orphanry * orphanship * orphany

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Deprived of parents (also (orphaned)).
    • She is an orphan child.
  • (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
    • With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

    Related terms

    * orphan drug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive )
    • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
  • (computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
    • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
    Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

    References

    * " orphan" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .