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Insulate
| insulated
| insulating material
| insulating tape
| insulation
| insulator
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Insulate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Insulate has 2 senses
- insulate(v = verb.change) Array - protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" is one way to alter, change, modify
- insulate(v = verb.change) isolate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
Derived forms noun insulant1, noun insulation3, noun insulation2, noun insulator1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun insulation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- To make an island of. Pennant. [1913 Webster]
- To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate. [1913 Webster]
- To prevent the transfer of electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Insulate, v.tr.
1 prevent the passage of electricity, heat, or sound from (a thing, room, etc.) by interposing non-conductors.
2 detach (a person or thing) from its surroundings; isolate.
3 archaic make (land) into an island.
1 prevent the passage of electricity, heat, or sound from (a thing, room, etc.) by interposing non-conductors.
2 detach (a person or thing) from its surroundings; isolate.
3 archaic make (land) into an island.
Idiom
insulating tape an adhesive tape used to cover exposed electrical wires etc.
Derivative
insulation n.
Etymology
L insula island + -ATE(3)
THESAURUS
Insulate
bolt, close off, cordon, cordon off, cover, cull out, cushion, cut off, detach, divide, enisle, fireproof, ghettoize, gin, ground, island, island-hop, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lag, lay aside, pick out, preserve, proof, protect, put aside, quarantine, riddle, screen, seclude, segregate, separate, sequester, sequestrate, set apart, set aside, shelter, shield, sieve, sift, sort out, soundproof, thrash, thresh, waterproof, weatherproof, winnow, wrapROGET THESAURUS
Insulate
Disjunction
VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.
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