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Insulated and Isolated Definitions

Insulated

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

Isolated

Far from others or difficult to get to; remote
An isolated farmhouse.

Insulated

To cause to be in a detached or isolated position.

Isolated

Occasional or rare
Reporters in the field observed isolated instances of rebellion.

Insulated

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

Characterized by little social contact
Leading an isolated life.

Insulated

Placed or set apart.
An insulated house or column

Isolated

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

Insulated

(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.

Isolated

Happening or occurring only once.
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Insulated

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.

Isolated

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

Insulated

Simple past tense and past participle of insulate

Isolated

Affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.

Insulated

Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
The special and insulated situation of the Jews.
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Isolated

(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Insulated

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

Isolated

Simple past tense and past participle of isolate

Insulated

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.

Isolated

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

Isolated

Not close together in time;
Isolated instances of rebellion
Scattered fire
A stray bullet grazed his thigh

Isolated

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others;
She felt detached from the group
Could not remain the isolated figure he had been
Thought of herself as alone and separated from the others
Had a set-apart feeling

Isolated

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

Isolated

Cut off or left behind;
An isolated pawn
Several stranded fish in a tide pool
Travelers marooned by the blizzard

Isolated

Under forced isolation especially for health reasons;
A quarantined animal
Isolated patients

Isolated

Remote and separate physically or socially;
Existed over the centuries as a world apart
Preserved because they inhabited a place apart
Tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization
An obscure village

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