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 Translation for 'to insulate sth' from English to Italian
edil.
isolare qc. [contro freddo, umidità, rumore ecc.]
to insulate sth.
Partial Matches
gareggiare con qn./qc. in qc.to rival sb./sth. in sth.
rivaleggiare con qn./qc. in qc.to rival sb./sth. in sth.
isolare (qn./qc.) da qc.to isolate (sb./sth.) from sth.
rinunciare a qc.to renounce sth.
maneggiare qc.to manage sth.
rosolare qc.to sauté sth.
soffriggere qc.to brown sth.
rettificare qc.to amend sth.
bruciacchiare qc.to scorch sth.
maneggiare qc.to handle sth.
indebolire qc.to impair sth.
compromettere qc.to impair sth.
programmare qc. [pianificare]to plan sth.
pianificare qc. [programmare]to plan sth.
procurare qc.to procure sth.
indicizzare qc.to index sth.
purificare qc.to purify sth.
causare qc.to evoke sth.
sporcare qc. [anche fig.]to taint sth.
mus.sport
incordare qc.
to string sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • The long hairs growing between its toes create a cushion of fur over the foot pads, helping to insulate them while moving over hot sand.
  • The New Central Bank Act (Republic Act No 7653) of June 14, 1993 replaces the old CBP with a new Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas mandated explicitly to maintain price stability, and enjoying fiscal and administrative autonomy to insulate it from government interference.
  • Silent partners may prefer to invest in limited partnerships in order to insulate their personal assets from the debts or liabilities of the partnership.
  • this was a position of the Alberta Legislature which passed the "Marriage Amendment Act" in March 2000 defining marriage exclusively as an opposite-sex union and attempted to insulate the decision by invoking the Notwithstanding Clause.
  • As this measure is labour-intensive and therefore rather expensive, few efforts have actually been made to insulate pylons in areas with few fiscal resources devoted to conservation such as rural Spain.

  • Green roofs also indirectly reduce CO2 given off by power plants through their ability to insulate buildings.
  • Boots are normally worn with socks to prevent chafes and blisters, to absorb sweat, to improve the foot's grip inside the boot, or to insulate the foot from the cold.
  • In the oil and gas industry, Dewar flasks are used to insulate the electronic components in wireline logging tools.
  • Several hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage were dumped on the land and used to insulate against the cancer causing radon.
  • The iron was varnished to insulate it from the windings.

  • Very long filaments for high voltages are fragile, and lamp bases become more difficult to insulate, so lamps for illumination are not made with rated voltages over 300 volts.
  • Not only does this help to insulate the building, but the water stored in the sedum plants is also harvested and used to flush the staff toilets and clean company vehicles.
  • In 2008, plans were proposed to insulate the statue from the vibration of tourists' footsteps at Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia, to prevent damage to the marble.
  • To insulate theology from scientism or reductionism in science, 19th-century post-Enlightenment German theologians developed a modernist or so-called liberal conception of Christianity, led by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Albrecht Ritschl.
  • Initially this was done because it was easier to provide good insulation for the secondary winding of an external coil than it was in a coil buried in the construction of the magneto (early magnetos had the coil assembly externally to the rotating parts to make them easier to insulate—at the expense of efficiency).

  • Myelin is a lipid-rich material that surrounds nerve cell axons (the nervous system's "wires") to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses (called action potentials) are passed along the axon.
  • Substations may be described by their voltage class, their applications within the power system, the method used to insulate most connections, and by the style and materials of the structures used.
  • The two most common purposes are to insulate the wearer against excessive heat loss, and to isolate the wearer from direct contact with a liquid environment during immersion or repeated multi-directional contact with bulk liquids or spray.
  • Many other insulating materials are used to insulate smaller machines; plastics allow quick manufacture of an insulator, for example.
  • Such surfaces can be used to reduce heat transfer in both directions; an example of this is the multi-layer insulation used to insulate spacecraft.

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