| VERB | change | insulate | protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | insulate, isolate | place or set apart |
| Sounds | ih'nsahley.t | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" | |
| Narrower | soundproof | insulate against noise |
| weatherstrip | Provide with weatherstripping / weatherstripping | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | aislar | |
| Catalan | aïllar, isolar | |
| Nouns | insulant, insulation | a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity |
| insulation | the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity | |
| insulator | a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | |
| Meaning | place or set apart. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | isolate | |
| Narrower | cloister | seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister |
| ghettoize, ghettoise | put in a ghetto | |
| maroon | Leave stranded on a desert island without resources / resources | |
| quarantine | place into enforced isolation / isolation, as for medical reasons | |
| seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw | Keep away from others | |
| segregate | separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | |
| Broader | discriminate, separate, single out | treat differently on the basis of sex / sex or race |
| Spanish | aislar | |
| Catalan | aïllar-se, aïllar, isolar-se, isolar | |
| Nouns | insulation | the state of being isolated / isolated or detached |
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