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1. 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
   "The difference is the innate isolating mechanism"

1. Separate in order to protect or prevent interaction
   "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates";
   - insulate
    
2. (chemistry) obtain in pure form
   "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
    
3. Set apart from others
   "The dentist isolates the tooth he is working on";
   - sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart
    
4. (psychology) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

See also: analytic, uninflected

Type of: acquire, assort, class, classify, discriminate, disunite, divide, get, part, separate, single out, sort, sort out

Encyclopedia: Isolating