Insulate
['ɪnsjʊleɪt] or ['ɪnsəlet]
Definition
(verb.) protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; 'We had his bedroom insulated before winter came'.
Inputed by Kirsten--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make an island of.
(v. t.) To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.
(v. t.) To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.
Inputed by Ferdinand
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Detach, isolate, separate, disconnect, disunite, disengage.
Typed by Betsy
Examples
- Attempts to insulate the line wire were limited to coating it with tar or smearing it with wax for the benefit of all the bees in the neighborhood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No special precautions were taken to insulate the rails from the earth or from each other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At K this spring is clamped and insulated from the iron work by two pieces of hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another difficulty attending the use of insulated wires buried in the ground arises from a very peculiar condition of electrical conduction, that could scarcely have been anticipated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The method of supporting the wires on tall posts was then adopted by Mr. Cooke, the wires being insulated from the posts at the points of suspension, by passing them through quills. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In order to have a steady, dependable current, the wire carrying the current must be insulated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Callahan made the further innovation of insulating his circuit wires, although the cost was then forty times as great as that of bare wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was also the first to use mica in insulating the commutator sections from each other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A is a vibrator, B, C, D, E are sheets of tin-foil hung on insulating stands. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was in his machine also that mica was used for the first time as an insulating medium in a commutator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Val