Isolated vs Confined - What's the difference?
isolated | confined | Related terms |
Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
(chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
(meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
(isolate)
(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
Isolated is a related term of confined.
As adjectives the difference between isolated and confined
is that isolated is placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation while confined is not free to move.As verbs the difference between isolated and confined
is that isolated is (isolate) while confined is (confine).isolated
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(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.