STABILIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stabilize mean? 

• STABILIZE (verb)
  The verb STABILIZE has 3 senses:

1. make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium

2. support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

3. become stable or more stable

  Familiarity information: STABILIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STABILIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stabilize    ... he / she / it stabilizes   
Past simple: stabilized   
Past participle: stabilized   
-ing form: stabilizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

stabilise; stabilize

Context example:

stabilize prices

Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):

peg (stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

destabilize (make unstable)

Derivation:

stabilization (the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable)

stabilizer (a device for making something stable)

stabilizer (airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft)

stabilizer (a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

brace; stabilise; stabilize; steady

Context example:

brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel

Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):

beef up; fortify; strengthen (make strong or stronger)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):

ballast (make steady with a ballast)

guy (steady or support with a guy wire or cable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stabilization (the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become stable or more stable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

stabilise; stabilize

Context example:

The economy stabilized

Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):

root; settle; settle down; steady down; take root (become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style)

becalm; calm; steady (make steady)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Antonym:

destabilise; destabilize (become unstable)

 Context examples 

BAY 56-3722 stabilizes the topoisomerase I-DNA covalent complex and forms an enzyme-drug-DNA ternary complex.

(BAY 56-3722, NCI Thesaurus)

By forming crosslinks between the 4 subunits to further stabilize the structure, they resolved it in even greater detail.

(Structure of receptor involved in brain disorders, NIH)

AS03 is a stabilized oil-in-water emulsion adjuvant containing DL-alpha-tocopherol, squalene and polysorbate 80 that non-specifically stimulates cell-mediated immune antigen responses.

(AS03-Adjuvanted H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Abraxane, nanoparticle paclitaxel, paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation, and protein-bound paclitaxel.

(ABI-007, NCI Dictionary)

Also called ABI-007, Abraxane, paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation, and protein-bound paclitaxel.

(Nanoparticle paclitaxel, NCI Dictionary)

A major stabilizing ligament in the knee that attaches the surfaces of the femur and tibia.

(Anterior Cruciate Ligament, NCI Thesaurus)

BMS-188797 binds to and stabilizes the resulting microtubules, thereby inhibiting microtubule disassembly which results in cell- cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and apoptosis.

(BMS-188797, NCI Thesaurus)

Cabazitaxel binds to and stabilizes tubulin, resulting in the inhibition of microtubule depolymerization and cell division, cell cycle arrest in the G2/M phase, and the inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.

(Cabazitaxel, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ABI-007, nanoparticle paclitaxel, paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation, and protein-bound paclitaxel.

(Abraxane, NCI Dictionary)

Other experiments showed that CC2D2A is part of structures called subdistal appendages, which help anchor the basal body at the cell membrane to stabilize cilia and allow them to form.

(Protein critical to cilia development, NIH)