isolated, apart(p), obscure
(adjective) remote and separate physically or socially; “existed over the centuries as a world apart”; “preserved because they inhabited a place apart”- W.H.Hudson; “tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization”; “an obscure village”
isolated, stray
(adjective) not close together in time; “isolated instances of rebellion”; “a few stray crumbs”
isolated, quarantined
(adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons; “a quarantined animal”; “isolated patients”
detached, isolated, separated, set-apart
(adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others; “she felt detached from the group”; “could not remain the isolated figure he had been”- Sherwood Anderson; “thought of herself as alone and separated from the others”; “had a set-apart feeling”
disjunct, isolated
(adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; “little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara”- Scientific Monthly
isolated, marooned, stranded
(adjective) cut off or left behind; “an isolated pawn”; “several stranded fish in a tide pool”; “travelers marooned by the blizzard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)
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.
(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
isolated
simple past tense and past participle of isolate
• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, sodalite, solidate
Source: Wiktionary
I"so*la`ted, a.
Definition: Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.
I"so*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating.] Etym: [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf. Insulate.]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.
2. (Elec.)
Definition: To insulate. See Insulate.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 February 2025
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism; “an acrimonious dispute”; “bitter about the divorce”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
