different between insulate vs isolated

English

Etymology

From Late Latin insulatus (“made like an island”), past participle of insulare (“to make like an island”), from insula (“island”); see insular.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nsj?le?t/, /??n??le?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ns?le?t/
• Hyphenation: in?su?late

Verb

insulate (third-person singular simple present insulates, present participle insulating, simple past and past participle insulated)

1. To separate, detach, or isolate.
2. To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.

   Ceramic can be used to insulate power lines.

Synonyms

• isolate

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• insulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• alunites

Latin

Participle

?nsul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nsul?tus

English

From French isolé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?s?le?t?d/
• Hyphenation: iso?lat?ed

Adjective

isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)

1. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
2. (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
3. (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
4. (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Derived terms

• isolate (via back-formation)

Translations

Verb

isolated

1. simple past tense and past participle of isolate

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, sodalite, solidate