isolating

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of isolate. Use this form for an action happening right now or as the name of the action.

   The nurses are isolating the new arrivals until their test results come back.

   Isolating each color helped the students see the pattern more clearly.

   Note
2. 2
   adjective

   Describing a language in which words rarely change form, and meaning comes from word order instead of endings.

   Like using separate building blocks for each idea, instead of gluing parts onto one word.

   Mandarin Chinese is an isolating language, so its words almost never change their form.

   Children learning an isolating language do not have to memorize many word endings.

   Similaranalytic

   Oppositesynthetic

   Note

Showing meanings only. Show all 2