different between isolate vs peninsula

English

Etymology

Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin insulatus (cognate with insulate).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?a?s?le?t/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /?a?s?l?t/

Verb

isolate (third-person singular simple present isolates, present participle isolating, simple past and past participle isolated)

1. (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
2. (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
4. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
5. (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
6. (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
7. (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
8. (intransitive) To self-isolate.

Translations

Noun

isolate (plural isolates)

1. Something that has been isolated.

Translations

Related terms

• insulant
• insular
• insularity
• insulate
• insulation
• insulator
• isolatable (adjective)
• isolated (adjective)
• isolating (adjective)
• isolation (noun)
• isolationism (noun)
• isolative (adjective)
• isolator (noun)

Anagrams

• Aeolist, et alios, tea oils

Interlingua

Participle

isolate

1. past participle of isolar

Italian

Adjective

isolate

1. feminine plural of isolato

Verb

isolate

1. second-person plural present of isolare
2. second-person plural imperative of isolare

Participle

isolate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of isolare

Anagrams

• alitose, oliaste, solatie

English

Alternative forms

• pæninsula

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paen?nsula, from paene (“almost”), and ?nsula (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.sj?.l?/, /?p?n.?n.sj?.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.s?.l?/
• (General Australian, yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /p??n?n.??.l?/
• Homophone: peninsular (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulas or peninsulae)

1. (geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

   Synonyms: byland, cape, chersonese, half-island, headland, ness

Derived terms

• Kenai Peninsula Borough
• Lake and Peninsula Borough
• Mahia Peninsula

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• peninsula at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Peninsula in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe??nin.su.la/, [pe??n??s????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe?nin.su.la/, [p??ninsul?]

Noun

p?n?nsula f (genitive p?n?nsulae); first declension

1. Alternative form of paen?nsula ("peninsula").

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• peninsula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peninsula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peninsula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Scots

Etymology

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Noun

peninsula (plural peninsulae)

1. A peninsula.