Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To expose to sunlight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To expose to the rays of the sun; affect by exposure to the sun, as for drying, ripening, arousing or stimulating (as the vital forces of a patient), or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
dry in, orexpose to, thesun 'srays ; toripen orprepare by such exposure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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However as much money as I save its doubtful I can fully insolate myself from something truely castastrophic.
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Finally, members of his administration coming from his Harvard alma mater will make fast and loyal friends - but friends like these tend to create a wall of impenetrability around their "leader" that could quickly insolate and misdirect him, undermining Obama's best intentions.
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Angry Grandpa is going to let his insolate granddaughter have it tonight! 2008
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Angry Grandpa is going to let his insolate granddaughter have it tonight! 2008
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This helped insolate those banks from much of the credit crisis.
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House Democrats say this will insolate students from swings in the private lending market and keep their interest rates low.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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This helped insolate those banks from much of the credit crisis.
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If it has disodium insolate or disodium guanilate in it, it contains some form of MSG.
DaddyBlogger.com 2009
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Hedges for approximately 40\% to 45\% of natural gas production in 2009 are at prices that are well above market with swaps averaging approximately $8.73 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) and collars ranging between $8.52 per Mcf and $9.56 per Mcf. Consequently hedges effectively insolate overall financial performance from depressed energy prices for the remainder of the year.
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Palestinians say the wall was built to incorporate rich farming land into Israel and to insolate the Palestinians behind the barrier, sections of it concrete and others just a fence.
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