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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈaɪ səˌleɪ tɪŋ, ˈɪs ə- |
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Définition of isolating
Origin :- by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.).
- The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed. ["The British Critic," April 1799]
- As a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819).
- verb cut off, set apart
- At least there are difficulties in isolating anything we can call love of race.
- Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge
- They have succeeded in isolating the bacillus leprae and studying it.
- Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London
- The temper of the age in fact was changing, and isolating her as it changed.
- Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) » by John Richard Green
- The self-sufficingness of Stoicism is essentially inhuman and isolating.
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- I take forty Bees, isolating them, as usual, in screws of paper.
- Extract from : « The Mason-bees » by J. Henri Fabre
- Round the torpedo were eight persons, standing on isolating substances.
- Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier
- Of separating her from whatever group of the moment she was in, and isolating her to himself?
- Extract from : « Selina » by George Madden Martin
- In these days of ours the idea of isolating the population is chimerical.
- Extract from : « The Galley Slave's Ring » by Eugne Sue
- You do not succeed in isolating the precise fact you wish to observe.
- Extract from : « Psychology » by Robert S. Woodworth
- Perception is at once a combining response and an isolating response.
- Extract from : « Psychology » by Robert S. Woodworth
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