Isolate: alternatives and connections

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Jet, the mineral.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Chance; lot; destiny.

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An inclosed place.

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In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

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A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.

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To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

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Separate; select.

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To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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To sequester.

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

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Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

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The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

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The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

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To make an island of.

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To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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To sequester.

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