English-Portuguese translations for isolate

• isolar
  Podemos isolar um dos países, mas não o outro? Can we isolate one country, but not the other?
  A União Europeia não pode isolar o Irão. The European Union cannot afford to isolate Iran.
  Parece querer isolar totalmente o país. He appears to want to isolate the country completely.
• isolado
  Mas não se trata de caso isolado. This is no isolated case, however.
  O regime de Sharon tem de ser isolado.The Sharon regime must be isolated.
  Não se trata de casos isolados. It is not a matter of isolated cases.

Definition of isolate

• To set apart or cut off from others
• To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture
• To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture
• Something that has been isolated

Related words

• isolated
• isolateral
• self-isolate
• isolated pawn
• isolated incident
• isolated case
• isolated vertex
• isolated language
• language isolate