Insulated vs. Isolated

Insulated vs. Isolated — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Insulated and Isolated

Insulatedadjective

Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

Isolatedadjective

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

Insulatedadjective

Placed or set apart.

an insulated house or column

Isolatedadjective

Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.

Insulatedadjective

(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.

Isolatedadjective

affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.

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Insulatedadjective

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.

Isolatedadjective

(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Insulatedverb

simple past tense and past participle of insulate

Isolatedverb

simple past tense and past participle of isolate

Isolatedadjective

not close together in time;

isolated instances of rebellionscattered firea stray bullet grazed his thigh

Isolatedadjective

being or feeling set or kept apart from others;

she felt detached from the groupcould not remain the isolated figure he had beenthought of herself as alone and separated from the othershad a set-apart feeling
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Isolatedadjective

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

Isolatedadjective

cut off or left behind;

an isolated pawnseveral stranded fish in a tide pooltravelers marooned by the blizzard

Isolatedadjective

under forced isolation especially for health reasons;

a quarantined animalisolated patients

Isolatedadjective

remote and separate physically or socially;

existed over the centuries as a world apartpreserved because they inhabited a place aparttiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilizationan obscure village