different between isolation vs peninsula

English

Etymology

[1800] From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?s??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
2. The act of isolating.
3. (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
   • 1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of Irving Louis Horowitz (editor), Cuban Communism, Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985), page 486:

     As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.

   • 1993 September, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 49, Number 7, page 8:

     Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]

   • 2009, Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, Regnery Publishing, ?ISBN, page 49:

     It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.

5. (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
6. (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
7. (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
8. (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

Related terms

• insulate
• insulation
• isolate
• isolatedness

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

isoler +? -ation. Attested since 1774.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.z?.la.sj??/

Noun

isolation f (plural isolations)

1. isolation; insulation

2. (linguistics) isolation (low number of morphemes per word on average)
3. (psychology) isolation (a Freudian defense mechanism)

Usage notes

• isolation nowadays has a connotation of physical isolation or insulation as a form of protection, chiefly of objects.
• isolement nowadays has a connotation of isolation in the sense of exclusion.
• In older texts, the two may be used more interchangeably.

Related terms

• isoler
• isolement

Further reading

• “isolation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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.