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isolating

[ ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh- ]

adjective

Linguistics.
  1. pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order. Compare agglutinative ( def 2 ), inflectional ( def 2 ).


isolating

/ ˈ²¹Éª²õəˌ±ô±ðɪ³Ùɪŋ /

adjective

  1. linguistics another word for analytic
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of isolating1

First recorded in 1855–60; isolat(e) + -ing 2
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As the pregnancy progressed the then 28-year-old managed to hide it from Mr Sharkey and her wider family by wearing baggy clothes and isolating herself over winter, she said.

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The secondary crisis has hit hard in Malibu because of the ongoing closure of Pacific Coast Highway to most vehicle traffic — isolating the beachside community from customers coming from the Westside.

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No-one wants to be alone, and no job is more isolating than being a pop star.

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The abandonment of democratic principles and the democratic institutions the U.S. helped to create is isolating the United States from nations that have been our allies, partners, and friends.

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"In an oil and gas field, high resolution could be the difference between isolating the methane emissions from an oil well head from an adjacent pipeline," he says.

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