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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(121) Lack of privacy, loss of security and personal identity and isolation from family and friends may also contribute to anxiety.
(122) It is doubtful that any one of the described prevention programs - in isolation - will effectively prevent abuse.
(123) The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous.
(124) Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed.
(125) Words spoken in connected speech often sound different than when spoken in isolation.
(126) Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
(127) War and isolation have proved an ideal breeding ground for corruption and feuding between rival political clans.
(128) Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.
(129) These involved marital, loss or separation, social relations or isolation, and criminal behaviour problems.
(130) We hope to dispel the belief that scientists work in isolation in windowless rooms.
(131) Gombe is still inaccessible by road - but despite its isolation, it hasn't lacked human interest.
(132) It was a 3, 000-foot granite slab, rising in total isolation from a flat plain.
(133) Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.
(134) This struggle with adversity and the resulting self-imposed isolation came to be seen as criteria for artistic genius.
(135) SunNet Manager includes a set of applications for automated fault isolation, diagnosis and network monitoring and control.
(136) Many teachers work in relative isolation within their own classrooms in both primary and secondary schools.
(137) Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation.
(138) One could have too much of loneliness and isolation, and Jenny was good company; cheerful and amusingly astringent.
(139) He tends to create images of empty spaces, of objects in isolation.
(140) These research activities have led to the initial isolation of many of the now known species of methane producing bacteria.
(141) Does it really make sense to conceive of a tutorial existing in isolation?
(142) The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name.
(143) Is it by clustering together to elect one of their own in isolation?
(144) Isolation of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae associated with enteric disease of herbivores in Western Colorado.
(145) Nevertheless, the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life.
(146) This isolation, like the isolation in terrestrial evolution, breeds variety and marked differences.
(147) To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous.
(148) Subjects do not exist in isolation, but rather come together to form a coherent whole for the children.
(148) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
(149) It strips away the pretended grounds for much of their ecclesial isolation.
(150) Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too.
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