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Stranded vs Insulated - What's the difference?

stranded | insulated |

As verbs the difference between stranded and insulated

is that stranded is (strand) while insulated is (insulate).

As adjectives the difference between stranded and insulated

is that stranded is (of a person) abandoned or marooned while insulated is protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

stranded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (strand)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a person) abandoned or marooned.
  • (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
  • (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
  • expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
  • * With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

    • References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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    insulated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
  • Placed or set apart.
    • an insulated house or column
  • * De Quincey
    • the special and insulated situation of the Jews
  • (of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
    • Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
  • (astronomy, dated) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (insulate)

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