1.  isolate(v = verb.change) insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
is one way to discriminate, separate, single out
Derived forms adjective isolable₁, noun isolation₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

2.  isolate(v = verb.change) - obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
is one way to acquire, get
Derived form adjective isolable₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  isolate(v = verb.change) keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
is one way to disunite, divide, part, separate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  isolate(v = verb.cognition) - separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them;
is one way to assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out
Derived forms adjective isolable₁, noun isolation₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the troublemakers in a classroom. [1913 Webster]
"Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts." [1913 Webster]

2.  To insulate. See Insulate. [1913 Webster]

3.  To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as, to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture. [1913 Webster]

4.  To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate Eschericia coli from a patient's blood. [PJC]

   Something that has been isolated; as, an isolate of a powerful antibiotic from a tropical plant; an isolate of tuberculosis bacillus from an infected patient. [PJC]

isolate, v.tr.
1 a place apart or alone, cut off from society. b place (a patient thought to be contagious or infectious) in quarantine.
2 a identify and separate for attention (isolated the problem). b Chem. separate (a substance) from a mixture.
3 insulate (electrical apparatus).

Derivative:
isolable adj. isolatable adj. isolator n.

Etymology:
orig. in past part., f. F isol{eacute} f. It. isolato f. LL insulatus f. L insula island

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.

VB  be one, be alone, dine with Duke Humphrey, isolate, render one, unite.