{
    "term": "isolate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "isolate",
            "heSheIt": "isolates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "isolated",
        "pastParticiple": "isolated",
        "ingForm": "isolating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to separate somebody/something physically or socially from other people or things",
            "sensetop": "isolate somebody/yourself/somethingisolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Patients with the disease should be isolated.",
                    "contextForm": "isolate somebody/yourself/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Engineers isolated the gas supply to the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners.",
                    "contextForm": "isolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This decision will isolate the country from the rest of Europe."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to separate a part of a situation, problem, idea, etc. so that you can see what it is and deal with it separately",
            "sensetop": "isolate something (from something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It is possible to isolate a number of factors that contributed to her downfall."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to separate a single substance, cell, etc. from others so that you can study it",
            "sensetop": "isolate something (from something)",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪt/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪts/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolated__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪt/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪts/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "is/isolate/isolating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated."
}