Isolation vs Alone - What's the difference?
isolation | alone |
(chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
The act of isolating.
(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
* 1975 , W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of (editor), Cuban Communism , Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985),
* 1993 September, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in , Volume 49, Number 7,
* 2009 , Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West , Regnery Publishing, ISBN 9781596985711,
(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others
(computing) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions
By oneself, solitary.
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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18
*:It is not good that the man should be alone .
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Considered separately.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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Without equal.
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:(Shakespeare)
By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Without outside help.
Exclusively.
As a noun isolation
is isolation (act of isolating).As an adjective alone is
by oneself, solitary.As an adverb alone is
by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.isolation
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- As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation , Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.
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- Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation' with diplomatic recognition,
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- It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.
alone
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(wikipedia alone)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Ian Traynor
Rise of Europe's new autocrats, passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}