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Meaning of isolated

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  isolated
      adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
             rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: {isolated},
             {stray}]
      2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
         detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
         figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself
         as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart
         feeling" [syn: {detached}, {isolated}, {separated}, {set-
         apart}]
      3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
         "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected
         as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
         [syn: {disjunct}, {isolated}]
      4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded
         fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
         [syn: {isolated}, {marooned}, {stranded}]
      5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
         quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: {isolated},
         {quarantined}]
      6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the
         centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
         inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages
         remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
         [syn: {apart(p)}, {isolated}, {obscure}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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