isolate
- cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others；place (a person or animal) in quarantine to prevent the spread of an infectious disease
- a person or thing that has been or become isolated；a culture of microorganisms isolated for study.
verb: isolate, 3rd person present: isolates, gerund or present participle: isolating, past tense: isolated, past participle: isolated
noun: isolate, plural noun: isolates
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動詞
- 1. cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others a country which is isolated from the rest of the world 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ place (a person or animal) in quarantine to prevent the spread of an infectious disease the best way to isolate sick fish is to set up a hospital tank 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ remain apart from others for a period of time, especially in order to avoid catching or transmitting an infectious disease the governor urged residents to isolate to limit the spread of the virus
- 2. identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately his difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, especially a part of a supply network) engineers isolated the gas supply to the house
- ▪ cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, especially a part of a supply network).
- ▪ obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it
名詞
- 1. a person or thing that has been or become isolated social isolates often become careless of their own welfare
- 2. a culture of microorganisms isolated for study.
