Labile

Definitions: Labile

Labile

Adjective

1. Open to change; liable to change; "an emotionally labile person".

2. (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown.

Etymology: Labile \La"bile\, adjective. [Latin expression labilis apt to slip, from labi to slip.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	1. gliding; moving from point to point over the surface; unstable; fluctuating. 2. chemically unstable. (references)
Mining	Said of rocks and minerals that are mechanically or chemically unstable;easily decomposed. CF:unstable. (references)
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Crosswords: Labile

Specialty definitions using "labile": Fish Venoms ♦ ion exchangers ♦ Kidd Blood-Group System ♦ labile protobitumens ♦ Receptors, Prolactin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Labile" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (labile), Italian (disoriented, fleeting, labile, unstable).

Domain	Title
Books	Erwin Herbst : Labile (reference) Microwave Fixation of Labile Metabolites (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These organisms adhere in the small intestine, where they multiply and produce an enterotoxin (either heat stable or heat labile) that causes fluid secretion and diarrhea. (references)
		FFP contains the major plasma proteins, including the labile coagulation factors (V and VIII), but in clinical practice other blood components or derivatives usually provide greater efficacy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Labile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Labile" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	85.71%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	14.29%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "labile": heat-labile, photo-labile.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "labile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paqëndrueshëm (changeable, cranky, fickle, fluent, fluid, inconsequential, inconstant, infirm, mutable, non-persistent, protean, rocky, soft, tipsy, tottering, unequable, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, waggly, wayward), i ndryshueshëm (alterable, changeable, changeful, fickle, flexible, inconstant, mercurial, mobile, movable, mutable, protean, shifting, transitional, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, various, varying, vertiginous). (various references)

Arabic		‏قابل للتغيير (adjustable, alterable, convertible, variable), ‏غير مستقر (inconstant, infirm, insecure, migrant, skittish, tottering, uneasy, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), ‏خاضع للتغير. (various references)

Bulgarian		колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), неустойчив (infirm, insecure, non-persistent, rickety, top heavy, transient, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, weak), лабилен (infirm). (various references)

Czech		labilní (unstable). (various references)

Danish		labil. (various references)

Dutch		labiel. (various references)

Finnish		labiili vetyatomi (labile hydrogen atom), labiili verituote (labile blood product), labiili kohonnut verenpaine (labile hypertension). (various references)

French		labile. (various references)

German		unbeständig (changeable, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, impermanent, inconsistent, inconsistently, inconstant, inconstantly, Moody, transitory, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile). (various references)

Greek		συνείδησις της προσωπικότητος (consciousness of personality, labile consciousness of personality), η σταθερά της μεταφοράς από την ασταθή ερυθροποιητική δεξαμενή στη σταθερή ερυθροβλαστκή δεξαμενή (the constant of transfer from the labile erythropoietic pool to the stabile erythroblastic pool), ασταθές προϊόν (labile blood product), ασταθές εκκρεμοειδές σύστημα (labile tilting system), ασταθές άτομο υδρογόνου (labile hydrogen atom), ασταθής πίεση αίματος (labile blood pressure), ασταθής υπέρταση (labile hypertension), ασταθής αρτηριακή υπέρταση (labile hypertension), ασταθής ανοσία (labile immunity), ασταθής αυτοσυνείδησις της προσωπικότητος (consciousness of personality, labile consciousness of personality). (various references)

Hebrew		רפיף. (various references)

Hungarian		változékony (alterable, changeable, choppy, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, liquid, mercurial, mobile, mutable, unsettled, unsteady, variable), ingatag (fickle, flighty, fugacious, mercurial, mutable, precarious, sandy, shaky, shilly-shally). (various references)

Indonesian		labil. (various references)

Italian		labile (disoriented, fleeting, unstable). (various references)

Pig Latin		abilelay.(various references)

Portuguese		labiado (lippen), lábil, lábil. (various references)

Romanian		labil. (various references)

Russian		неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, erratic, grog, groggy, inconstant, infirm, ramshackle, top heavy, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding), лабильный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		labilan (unstable), nepostojan (changeable, evanescent, fugacious, impermanent, inconstant, transient, transitory, unabiding, vacillating), klizni. (various references)

Spanish		lábil. (various references)

Swedish		labil (unstable, volatile). (various references)

Thai		ที่เปลี่ยนแปลงเสมอ. (various references)

Turkish		değişken (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, erratic, factor, fickle, fitful, flexible, flexile, fluid, fluxional, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, inequable, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, sliding, streaked, streaky, swinging, uncertain, unfunded, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, versatile). (various references)

Ukranian		нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, groggy, infirm, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), лабільний. (various references)

Vietnamese		không bền (caducous, fugitive, fungous, unabiding, undurable), dễ rụng, dễ huỷ, dễ biến. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "labile": thermolabile. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Labile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abile, albie, fabile, Hlobil, Kabyle, labele, Labi, labie, labine, labiwe, lable, laebile, laible, Lamile, Latilla, lobie, Loibl, Lombilo, Lubie, lubile, Mlambala, rabile. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "labile" (pronounced 'La"bile'): Automobile, immobile, Nubile, Sorbile. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: alible, liable.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l"
	-1 letter: ileal, label, libel.
	-2 letters: able, bail, bale, ball, bell, bile, bill, blae, ilea, leal.
	-3 letters: ail, alb, ale, all, bal, bel, ell, ill, lab, lea, lei, lib, lie.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, ai, al, ba, be, bi, el, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l"
	+1 letter: ballies, braille, liberal, likable, linable, livable, lobelia, pliable.
	+2 letters: alliable, bailable, balkline, balletic, ballsier, balmlike, bastille, billable, billhead, blearily, boilable, brailled, brailles, fallible, fileable, filmable, fireball, foilable, isolable, labeling, lamblike, lapsible, leviable, libelant, liberals, lienable, liftable, likeable, lineable, linkable, listable, liveable, lobelias, mailable, millable, mislabel, reliable, reliably, sailable, slablike, slidable, tillable, tiltable, violable, willable.
	+3 letters: alienable, available, balklines, ballerina, ballistae, ballsiest, bastilles, befalling, begalling, bestially, bilateral, billheads, bipedally, bladelike, buildable, claimable, climbable, dilatable, drillable, eightball, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, gimballed, globalise, globalize, illiberal, labelling, labialize, libelants, libellant, liberally, limitable, litigable, lullabied, lullabies, mislabels, plausible, reliables, sliceable, slimeball, spillable, spoilable, unlikable, unlivable, wallabies.
	+4 letters: ablatively, applicable, assailable, backfilled, balladries, ballerinas, banderilla, barrelling, believable, believably, biennially, bimetallic, bisexually, blackflies, brilliance, cranesbill, cultivable, declinable, deshabille, dialyzable, dishabille, dislikable, disyllable, eightballs, explicable, explicably, eyeballing, fibrillate, filterable, fireballer, globalised, globalises, globalized, globalizes, highballed, illaudable, impalpable, implacable, inclinable, includable, inculpable, infallible, inflatable, insolvable, invaluable, inviolable, isolatable, klebsiella, labialized, labializes, labilities, labiovelar, libellants, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, liberality, liberalize, licensable, listenable, mislabeled, neoliberal, obligately, pilferable, plebeianly, radiolabel, realizable, refillable, relabeling, relievable, relishable, replicable, sheathbill, slimeballs, sublimable, unreliable, untillable, utilizable.
	+5 letters: abolishable, acerbically, adverbially, aerobically, antiliberal, articulable, assimilable, bacterially, ballcarrier, banderillas, basipetally, battlefield, beautifully, bellyaching, bibliolater, bidialectal, bilaterally, billboarded, billionaire, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, bimillenary, bimolecular, blacklisted, blacklister, blackmailed, blackmailer, bladderlike, blanketlike, boilerplate, brainlessly, brilliances, bristletail, collapsible, cranesbills, deliverable, deshabilles, dishabilles, dislikeable, displayable, dissolvable, dissyllable, disyllables, explainable, exploitable, falsifiable, fibrillated, fibrillates, fireballers, fireballing, illiberally, illimitable, illuminable, implantable, implausible, inalienable, inalienably, inalterable, inalterably, ineluctable, ineluctably, inflammable, inflatables, inflectable, intolerable, intolerably, klebsiellas, labiodental, labiovelars, liabilities, liberalised, liberalises, liberalisms, liberalists, liberalized, liberalizer, liberalizes, liberalness, likableness, livableness, liveability, localizable, manipulable, meltability, mislabeling, mislabelled, multibarrel, multibladed, neoliberals, pliableness, polarizable, prebiblical, publishable, qualifiable, radiolabels, rambouillet, reclaimable, relabelling, reliability, repleviable, sheathbills, subaerially, syllabaries, syllabicate, syllabified, syllabifies, trailblazer, trailerable, trisyllable, umbrellaing, unalienable, unavailable, unbuildable, unclimbable, unplausible, whistleable.
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