isolate

隔離する、分離する

人や物をほかから離し、混ざったり接触したりしないようにすること。

やさしい英語で： To keep someone or something apart from others so they cannot mix or have contact.

• Doctors isolated the sick child.
• The storm has isolated several villages from the nearest town.
• We need to isolate this chemical from the other substances.

使い方： isolate someone/something from someone/something (The fence isolates the garden from the street.)

類義語： separate, cut off, set apart

反対語： connect

よく使う表現： isolate someone, isolate a sample, isolate yourself

分離株

研究などのために、ほかから切り離された人、生物、物質。

やさしい英語で： A person, organism, or substance kept apart from others, often for study.

• The laboratory tested a bacterial isolate.
• Each isolate came from a different patient.
• These isolates were grown separately for further study.

よく使う表現： bacterial isolate, clinical isolate, single isolate

孤立した言語

同じ起源を持つほかの言語が知られていない言語。

やさしい英語で： A language with no other languages known to come from the same origin.

• Basque is a language isolate.
• Linguists disagree about whether this language is an isolate.
• Several isolates are spoken by small communities.

類義語： language isolate

よく使う表現： language isolate, an isolate, linguistic isolate