Synonym: closing off. Similar words: violation, isolate, isolated, relation, inflation, population, revelation, regulation. Meaning: [‚aɪsə'leɪʃn] n. 1. a state of separation between persons or groups 2. the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others 3. a feeling of being disliked and alone 4. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it 5. a country's withdrawal from international politics.
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(31) The figures should not be looked at in isolation but as part of a pattern.
(32) To make sense, these figures should not be looked at in isolation.
(33) These immigrants face problems of geographical distance and cultural isolation.
(34) The various organs of the body do not function in isolation but are mutually dependent.
(35) The tower stands in splendid isolation on the cliff edge.
(36) The mansion sits in splendid isolation on top of the hill .
(37) We must on no account view problems superficially and in isolation.
(38) Boredom and isolation were driving Polly to desperation.
(39) In her isolation, she began to doubt her friendships.
(40) Steamboats, railways and telegraphs broke down geographical isolation.
(41) First-year college students often experience feelings of isolation.
(42) Nationalistic isolation tears apart the fabric of humanity.
(43) I roamed around archways leading nowhere and windows framed by stone walls standing in isolation.
(44) This is isolation and, in the broader context, the notion of what it means to be an island.
(45) Because of the isolation nearly all the off-farm employment was rural, with the Forestry Commission being the major employer.
(46) But he needs more time to undo the barriers built by decades of isolation and protectionist legislation.
(47) Breaking out of that isolation may be one of the greatest challenges now facing our imagination.
(48) Relative isolation suited his character and he followed his own ideas with considerable success.
(49) Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.
(50) The leukocytes maintain their integrity and function during the isolation and labelling procedure.
(51) There is debate about whether a single species can split into two without geographical isolation.
(52) Most studies entailing isolation of intestinal epithelial cells invitro and subsequent grafting invivo have used intact undifferentiated fetal endoderm.
(53) In turn, that sense of community is what is expected to make New Traditional neighborhoods desirable in this age of isolation.
(54) The bottle of detergent stood in reproachful isolation at one end of the table.
(55) A word presented at the end of a sentence is considerably easier to recognise than that same word presented in isolation.
(56) On the contrary, features and limbs are perceived in isolation without relation, as fragments rather than as part of a totality.
(57) Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation.
(58) Most galaxies are found in clusters rather than in isolation.
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(59) This means that equilibrium quantity will increase by an amount greater than that which either change would have entailed in isolation.
(60) He also suggested a method to distinguish to which category any given behaviour pattern belonged; this was the isolation experiment.
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