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{
"term": "isolate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "isolate",
"heSheIt": "isolates"
},
"pastSimple": "isolated",
"pastParticiple": "isolated",
"ingForm": "isolating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to separate somebody/something physically or socially from other people or things",
"sensetop": "isolate somebody/yourself/somethingisolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Patients with the disease should be isolated.",
"contextForm": "isolate somebody/yourself/something"
},
{
"text": "Engineers isolated the gas supply to the house."
},
{
"text": "He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners.",
"contextForm": "isolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "This decision will isolate the country from the rest of Europe."
}
],
"topics": ["Healthcare"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to separate a part of a situation, problem, idea, etc. so that you can see what it is and deal with it separately",
"sensetop": "isolate something (from something)",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It is possible to isolate a number of factors that contributed to her downfall."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to separate a single substance, cell, etc. from others so that you can study it",
"sensetop": "isolate something (from something)",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪt/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪts/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolated__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪt/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪts/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "is/isolate/isolating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated."
}