isolate

isoler

Tenir quelqu’un ou quelque chose à l’écart pour éviter tout mélange ou contact avec les autres.

En anglais simple : To keep someone or something apart from others so they cannot mix or have contact.

• Doctors isolated the sick child.
• The storm has isolated several villages from the nearest town.
• We need to isolate this chemical from the other substances.

Comment l'utiliser : isolate someone/something from someone/something (The fence isolates the garden from the street.)

Synonymes : separate, cut off, set apart

Contraires : connect

Expressions courantes : isolate someone, isolate a sample, isolate yourself

isolat

Personne, organisme ou substance tenu à l’écart des autres, souvent pour être étudié.

En anglais simple : A person, organism, or substance kept apart from others, often for study.

• The laboratory tested a bacterial isolate.
• Each isolate came from a different patient.
• These isolates were grown separately for further study.

Expressions courantes : bacterial isolate, clinical isolate, single isolate

isolat linguistique

Langue dont on ne connaît aucune autre langue issue de la même origine.

En anglais simple : A language with no other languages known to come from the same origin.

• Basque is a language isolate.
• Linguists disagree about whether this language is an isolate.
• Several isolates are spoken by small communities.

Synonymes : language isolate

Expressions courantes : language isolate, an isolate, linguistic isolate