Associations to the word «Isolating»

Wiktionary

ISOLATING, verb. Present participle of isolate

Dictionary definition

ISOLATING, adjective. Relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.