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uninsulated adjective (alsoun-insulated)uk /ˌʌnˈɪn.sjə.leɪ.tɪd/ us /ˌʌnˈɪn.sə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/ not covered and surrounded with a material or substance that can stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering: Heat escapes from an uninsulated home in a number of ways, as the illustration shows. The lower, uninsulated cable is the neutral one. Seventy years ago, most people in this country were living in uninsulated houses. Astonishingly, the pipes that carry warm water around the heating network are completely uninsulated. They used the heater to stop water pipes from freezing in the uninsulated basement. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Isolating and separating at one/this etc. removeidiom Brexit compartmentalization compartmentalize compartmentation estrange estranged from someone estrangement estrangement from someone free-floating remove resegregate rope rope something/somewhere off screen something off uncouple unintegrated wrench wrenching zonal |