Crossword clues for stabilize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861, originally of ships; probably a back-formation from stability, or else from French stabiliser. Related: Stabilized; stabilizing. Earlier verbs in the same sense were stabilitate (1640s) and simple stable (v.) "make steady or firm, make stable" (c.1300), from Old French establir.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make stable. 2 (context intransitive English) To become stable. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make stable. 2 (context intransitive English) To become stable.
WordNet
v. make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices" [syn: stabilise] [ant: destabilize, destabilize]
support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace; "brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel" [syn: brace, steady, stabilise]
become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized" [syn: stabilise] [ant: destabilize, destabilize]
Usage examples of "stabilize".
In particular, those vesicles that have developed the ability to synthesize simple proteins that stabilize their delicate lipid bilayer membranes will be more likely to survive than those that have not.
Beyond it on four sides reached gleaming planes that came to knifelike edges at some distance he did not yet know how to gauge-four of the solar and magnetic sails that stabilized the great cylindroid on its path and its axis.
The deification of Hegel by himself, after the deification of Napoleon, who would henceforth be innocent since he had succeeded in stabilizing history, lasted only seven years.
In nearly every other western country during the postwar period, such a devaluation was followed immediately by a heavy influx of investment funds, stabilizing the currency at its new level.
Barely making headway, the huge craft slipped slowly through the water, stabilized by her fairwater planes.
Iatmul tribe of New Guinea, which, as Bateson noted, played a stabilizing feedback role when aggressive urges among male tribesmen threatened to break out in internal warfare.
I have to get a team onto the rig to stabilize it and check for any leaking oil.
When the two systems combine, two kinds of RNA molecule quickly evolve, one a template encoding the amino acid sequences of the simple proteins that stabilize the liposome membranes, the other able to read that sequence and bond appropriate amino acids together.
By the time the snagfield had stabilized her in realspace, pinning her there with its enormous pseudo mass, Picarefy was almost back to full capacity.
She needs, in fact Japan must have, the stabilizing influence which only the Sire can give.
Would you be able to create a stabilizing field under those circumstances?
With little involvement with civil affairs and local Iraqis, they did not provide much of a stabilizing influence.
Star systems, galaxies, clusters and superclusters, all stabilized by orbital motion, were impossible here.
The tachometer needle lifted as the engine became self sustaining He pushed up the throttle-tab to stabilize the turbine above the idle point, then repeated his actions for the starboard number-one turbine, the sound of it spooling up adding to the earsplitting noise-level in the cockpit.
Payment would be the Corviki process of stabilizing certain isotopes in the transuranian group whose power potential was unrealizable due to an exceedingly short half-life.