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insulate
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insulate as in:  insulate the attic

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    A piece of ice fell and damaged the space shuttle's insulating tiles.
    insulating = preventing heat transfer
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    It appears that McCandless was saving them to insulate his clothing or perhaps to make a feather pillow.  (source)
    insulate = create layers for warmth
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    One time when a neighbor's TV set broke, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires.  (source)
    insulate = separate (to prevent passage of electricity)
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    He pulled on a pair of heavy insulated gloves and opened the walk-in freezer marked CONTENTS VIABLE BIOLOGICAL MAINTAIN —10C MINIMUM.  (source)
    insulated = made to keep the inside warm
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    Daylight filters through the insulating glass bricks facing the skylight window well.  (source)
    insulating = acting as a layer to minimize the effect of the outside temperature on the inside
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    And since the houses were nearly all constructed of cheap, uninsulated materials—and the residents could not afford or did not choose to trouble themselves with air conditioning—the neighborhood (even in the evening) teemed with outdoor activities of the kind that are usually conducted indoors.  (source)
    uninsulated = without layers to reduce the effect of the outside temperature on the inside temperature
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninsulated means not and reverses the meaning of insulated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Frost was etched on the inside of my window, another sign that we needed to re-insulate the house.  (source)
    insulate = add a layer between that decreases the influence of the outside temperature on the inside
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    The platinoid wire is insulated and the covering of silk that insulates it is wound on the ebonite bobbins just where my finger is.†  (source)
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    In the center of the yard there was a lake of debris, vast and deep: leaking car batteries, tangles of insulated copper wire, abandoned transmissions, rusted sheets of corrugated tin, antique faucets, smashed radiators, serrated lengths of luminous brass pipe, and on and on.  (source)
    insulated = wrapped in a material that doesn't conduct electricity
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    Snow is clean, stark, severe, warm (as an insulating blanket, paradoxically), inhospitable, inviting, playful, suffocating, filthy (after enough time has elapsed).  (source)
    insulating = keeping the inside warm
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    I'm certain someone just cut out a square in the uninsulated stucco-on-plywood wall.†  (source)
    uninsulated = not separated to prevent passage of something such as heat, cold, noise, or electricity
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    My hands dig around in my closet until I find the insulated winter gear Cinna made for me for recreational use on the Victory Tour.  (source)
    insulated = made to keep the inside warm
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    In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.†  (source)
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insulate as in:  insulate her from harm

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They home schooled their young children to insulate them a little longer from what they consider to be a crass society.
insulate = separate (from influences thought to be harmful)
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    Supreme Court justices are appointed for life to try to insulate them from outside pressure.
    insulate = separate
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    Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions.  (source)
    insulate = separate (from harm)
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    Everyone in the family was suffering, but the children wanted to insulate their mother.  (source)
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    Birds and Flight Mansfield uses the metaphor of birds and flight as a strategy to show how the Sheridan insulate themselves from the lower classes.  (source)
    insulate = separate
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    For the seating arrangement I'd put Alex Thomas beside myself, with Callie on the other side and Laura at the far end. That way, I'd felt, he'd be insulated, or at least Laura would.  (source)
    insulated = separated from an influence thought to be harmful
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    But I don't see the harm of insulating a thread of command and control and as many scientists as possible.  (source)
    insulating = separating (from influences thought to be harmful)
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    He assured them that he had prepared a proper will, one that would insulate them from financial worries and also secure the future for their children, Seth's beloved grandchildren.  (source)
    insulate = separate
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    A peaceful place, insulated by fields, enwombed in hedges.  (source)
    insulated = separated from influences thought to be harmful
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    "Can you insulate people from this thing?" someone else asked.  (source)
    insulate = separate (from influences thought to be harmful)
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    Brinker, in his accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last.  (source)
    insulated = separated
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    When Cristian arrived at Carl Hayden, he decided to sign up for all honors courses, mainly so that he could insulate himself from "the idiots" who heckled the teachers, played pranks in class, and mocked his seriousness.  (source)
    insulate = separate
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    Butler steered the protesting Vietnamese to a rented four-wheel drive that was hardly necessary on the flat streets of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as the locals still called it, but Artemis preferred to be as insulated from civilians as possible.  (source)
    insulated = separated
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    A small table was stacked with volumes such as Predicting the Unpredictable: Insulate Yourself Against Shocks and Broken Balls: When Fortunes Turn Foul.†  (source)
    Insulate = separate from influences thought to be harmful
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