different between isolated vs privy

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

English

Alternative forms

• privie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pryvy, prive, from Old French privé (“private”), from Latin pr?v?tus (“deprived”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”). Doublet of private.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??v.i/

Adjective

privy (comparative more privy, superlative most privy)

1. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own. [from early 13th c.]

2. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
3. With knowledge of; party to; let in on. [from late 14th c.]

Derived terms

• privy council

Translations

Noun

privy (plural privies)

1. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
2. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
3. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
   • 1864 January 26, J.G. Lindsay, letter to P.P.L. O'Connel, §8:

     Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...

4. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

Synonyms

• (latrine, outhouse, or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (fixture): See Thesaurus:toilet

Derived terms

• privy house

Translations