isolate

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Why improve when you can label, isolate, mock, and ostracize?

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Quick take

place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of isolate gathered in one view.

verb

place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

verb

obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"

verb

set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for isolate.

verb

place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

verb

obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"

verb

set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"

verb

separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

Example sentences

Why improve when you can label, isolate, mock, and ostracize?

There is a tiny section in the spec about isolates.

It's super-easy to measure THD - just isolate harmonics of a sine wave a 1khz.

Not that you don't need clever code, but you isolate it and protect it and make sure the average team member doesn't have to look at it.

You can isolate huge numbers of the virus from infected individuals and sequence the DNA very cheaply.

The central team tends to isolate the remote worker because they're so used to just having a hallway chat and forget to share that with the rest of the team.

I don't see anything to convince me that "2" + 2 will be a concatenation... in the spec.>Thus, isolates are a heavyweight thread control model very much like Perl 5's ithreads.

To be fair, it's possible that dropbox understands this and has taken steps to sandbox and isolate the process that does this fetching from the rest of their internal infrastructure.

These extremists on both sides have pre-existing ideological war that's been going on for decades and has intensified over the internet, especially recently, as they isolate themselves in echo chambers like private subreddits and tumblr cliques.

Taking the time to isolate the problem and repair the crystal on a 30-year-old computer, when you could as easily have used an emulator or picked up another one on eBay, just because it's more fun to fix it yourself - that's pretty much the definition of a hacker, right there.