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isolated

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i·so·lat·ed  (s-ltd)
adj.
Separated from others; solitary or singular: Reporters in the field observed isolated instances of rebellion.

[From French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin nsultus, made into an island, from nsula, island.]
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Adj.1.isolated - not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
sporadic - recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
2.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"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
3.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"- Scientific Monthly
separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
4.isolated - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
unaccompanied - being without an escort
5.isolated - under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"
6.isolated - remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
unconnected - not joined or linked together

isolated
Translations
Spanish isolated [ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd] adjaislado
French isolated [ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd] adjisolé(e)
German isolated [ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd] isolate adjisoliert;
(place) → abgelegen;
isolated incident → Einzelfall m

Italian isolated [ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd] adjisolato/a

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In a confined or isolated area, if not very large, the organic and inorganic conditions of life will generally be in a great degree uniform; so that natural selection will tend to modify all the individuals of a varying species throughout the area in the same manner in relation to the same conditions.
The soil of all the former states has the appearance of an alluvial deposit; and isolated rocks have been found, of a nature and in situations which render it difficult to refute the opinion that they have been transferred to their present beds by floating ice.
Half a Martian year, about three hundred and forty-four of our days, each of these men spend alone in this huge, isolated plant.
 
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