Insulated vs. Isolated: What's the Difference?

To prevent the passage of heat, electricity, or sound into or out of, especially by surrounding or covering with a nonconducting material

Far from others or difficult to get to; remote

To cause to be in a detached or isolated position.

Occasional or rare

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

Characterized by little social contact

Placed or set apart.

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

(of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.

Happening or occurring only once.

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.

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

Simple past tense and past participle of insulate

Affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.

Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.

(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.

Simple past tense and past participle of isolate

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 affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

Not close together in time;

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others;

Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;

Cut off or left behind;

Under forced isolation especially for health reasons;

Remote and separate physically or socially;