Meaning

• To set apart or cut off from others.

• To place in quarantine or isolation.

• To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

• To insulate, or make free of external influence.

• To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.

• To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

Meaning

• Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

• (of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.

• (of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.

• Which has been extracted from the organism.