Extraction vs. Isolation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Extraction and Isolation
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Extraction
The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
Isolation
The act of isolating
Ordered the isolation of the sick patients.
Extraction
Something obtained by extracting; an extract.
Isolation
The quality or condition of being isolated
Isolation on a desert island.
Extraction
Origin; lineage
Of Spanish extraction.
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Isolation
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
Extraction
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
Isolation
The act of isolating.
Extraction
A person's origin or ancestry.
Isolation
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
Extraction
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
Isolation
(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
Extraction
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
Isolation
(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
Extraction
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Isolation
(databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
Extraction
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
Isolation
(psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Extraction
Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Isolation
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
Extraction
That which is extracted; extract; essence.
They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Isolation
A state of separation between persons or groups
Extraction
The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
Isolation
The act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
Extraction
Properties attributable to your ancestry;
He comes from good origins
Isolation
A feeling of being disliked and alone
Extraction
The act of pulling out (as a tooth);
The dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction
Isolation
Preference for seclusion or isolation
Isolation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
Isolation
A country's withdrawal from internal politics;
He opposed a policy of American isolation
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