"isolating" in the verb sense
1. isolate, insulate
place or set apart
"They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
2. isolate
obtain in pure form
"The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
3. sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
set apart from others
"The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
4. isolate
separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
"isolating" in the adjective sense
1. isolating
relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
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