uninsulated
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈɪnsəˌleɪtɪd/
- Specialized
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- Uninsulated walls and single-pane, drafty windows made the cabin temperature uneven.
- uninsulated walls
If we had a prefabricated metal panel uninsulated, we wouldn't be able to teach in this class.
- If we had a prefabricated metal panel uninsulated, we wouldn't be able to teach in this class.
Examples
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We lived in an uninsulated old home with a wood stove downstairs.
Blog text (9) -
The sun sets and the heat leaves the uninsulated temporary doors within a few hours.
Blog text (11) -
Their guest apartment was next to mine; the walls were thin and uninsulated.
Fiction book (1990) -
An uninsulated pipe will let heat from the hot water radiate into the environment. However, if the pipe is wrapped in layers of insulation, less heat will escape from the pipe into the environment.
Academic text (2015) -
In the winter, the cold air seeped through the uninsulated walls of the old house.
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We noticed the heating costs were higher because the uninsulated windows let in a lot of cold air.
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He decided to insulate the uninsulated pipes in the basement to prevent freezing during the winter.
Synonyms
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Not safe from harm
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An item that does not have a lining or printed lines
Has no protective cover, like wires or bullets
A thing without a cover that is exposed to harm
How Isolated
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Surface Forms
Morphology
uninsulated = insulated (transparent) = un + insulate + ed
Formed by productive prefixation of 'un-' to the adjective 'insulated' (insulate + -ed), yielding the clear negation 'not insulated'.
Etymology
Uninsulated breaks into un- 'not' and insulate, which comes from the root insula 'island' and is like the word isolate. To insulate is to make something like an 'island' that stops heat, electricity, or sound, so uninsulated means not protected and lets them pass through.