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Definition: Stabilize |
StabilizeVerb1. Make stable or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure". 2. Become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stabilize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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Medicine | Once stabilized on an adequate daily dose of methadone, patients. . heroin addicts. . are content to remain on that dose year after year. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: StabilizeSynonym: stabilise (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: destabilize (v). (additional references) |
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 | Colonizing plants help stabilize the dunes. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | East Timbalier Island, booms are placed to contain oil. The island was seriously impacted by Hurricane Andrew, after the oil blow out restoration plans included creating marshes near the breaks in the island to stabilize the island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | An image showing dredge material that was added to the area in front of the production facility. This area had the largest contiguous remaining marsh after hurricane Andrew passed through. The restoration project conducted with the oil blow out settlement funds created approximately 22 acres of marsh to help stabilize East Timbalier Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Magaly Rodriguez (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Tech. and Darryl Williams (right), NRCS District Conservationist, Okaloosa Co., FL, review the success of sand fencing and sea oats along Destin Beach. The fencing and sea oats were installed to stabilize er. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Watering trough for cattle on Colville Indian Reservation, Omak Washington. Fencing cattle out of the stream and placing alternative water supplies for livestock helps stabilize the stream and provides better fish habitat. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | Structures in Hurd creek, Washington. J-hooks are used to help stabilize the stream and prevent further stream bank erosion. Credit: Gary Wilson. |
 | Rip rap helps stabilize the banks of a stream in a water quality project in northeast Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Riparian buffers stabilize streambanks, reduce sediment entering the stream and help improve aquatic habitat. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Drop structure built at the outlet of a grassed waterway to stabilize the waterway and allow runoff to leave the waterway without causing gully erosion. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Magaly Rodriguez, NRCS, Soil Conservation Tech. examines sea oats recently planted to stabilize erosion during hurricanes and severe storms. Credit: USDA. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Finally, they must stabilize the vertebrae to prevent further injury. (references) | |
It may take up to three to six months for your vision to stabilize after surgery. (references) | ||
This will stabilize overactive muscles and stimulate contraction of urethral muscles. (references) | ||
Business | About 20 former salt mines are also used to store, stabilize, and dispose of hazardous waste. (references) | |
China's institutions are thus seeking to stabilize the rules and procedures to protect intellectual property related to software. (references) | ||
Corporations are getting larger in size so that they are able to stabilize the prices by temporarily shutting down production of some less efficient mills in the United States. (references) | ||
Economic History | Zimbabwe | At present it is not possible to predict when the situation may stabilize. (references) |
Canada | Pulp and paper prices are coming down from their highs and are expected to stabilize. (references) | |
Colombia | Financial Institutions Guarantee Fund (FOGAFIN), however, the sector began to stabilize itself. (references) | |
Political Economy | PERU | The exchange rate for the Peruvian New Sol is determined by market forces, with some intervention by the central bank to stabilize movements. (references) |
Bulgaria | The caretaker cabinet moved quickly to stabilize the economy in March 1997 by concluding a $510 million standby arrangement with the IMF to help pull the country out of crisis. (references) | |
NIGERIA | At the same time the government sought to stabilize the Naira which encouraged widespread improper behavior by financial institutions and others who sought to take advantage of attractive currency arbitrage opportunities. (references) | |
Political Rights | Lesotho | However, in 1998 the King did not take an active role in the opposition campaign, as he did in 1994, and, based on the 1994 Memorandum of Understanding, Prime Minister Mosisili asked SADC to intervene militarily to stabilize the situation. (references) |
Trade | Korea | Korea also maintains a tariff quota system designed to stabilize domestic commodity markets. (references) |
Venezuela | In response, the bank supervisory authorities have taken steps to stabilize the banking sector. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The actions taken by the Congress at my request helped stabilize the system. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have all agreed to stabilize the Medicare Trust Fund. |
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| "Stabilize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.73% of the time. "Stabilize" is used about 142 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 88.73% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.27% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "stabilize": de-stabilize. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
operation stabilize | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stabilize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stabilizoj (peg, settle), fiksoj (affix, arrange, assign, clinch, fasten, fix, freeze, hang, impress, Mount, nail, pin down, pose, print, secure, set, settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وازن (balance, balancing, collate, compare, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equate, equilibrate, equipoise, even, offset, poise, set off, square, strike a balance), حفظ توازن, إستقر (be located, become steady, deposit, locate, lodge, move, plateau, set, settle, settle down, settle oneself, sit, spread out, steady, subside), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), رسخ (embed, entrench, establish, firm, fix, implant, instill, plant, print, root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стабилизирам (steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 稳定 (stabilise, stabilised, stabilising, stability, stabilized, stabilizing, stable, steadied, steadying), 安定 (calm and orderly, maintain, quiet, settled, stabilized, stable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stabilizovat, zpevnit (firm, reinforce, toughen), ustálit (consolidate, solidify, steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پابرجاشدن یاکردن , تثبیت کردن (Confirm, Reinstate), استوارکردن (Firm, Fix, Pitch), ثابت شدن (Fix), بحالت موازنه دراوردن (Poise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vakauttaa (consolidate), vakaannuttaa (establish, settle, strengthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stabiliser (hold steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stabilisieren (steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταθεροποιώ (consolidate, make stable, standardize, steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ליצב (consolidate, immobilize, steady), ל'בש (consolidate, crystallize, shape, solidify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | stabilizál (to ballast), rögzít (ascertain, fasten, fix, immobilize, tie down, to anchor, to clog, to dung, to engrain, to ingrain, to lock, to make fast, to record, to secure, to tackle, to tie), megszilárdít (cement, concrete, consolidate, set, settle, to cement, to concrete, to confirm, to congeal, to consolidate, to firm, to set, to solidify, to steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stabilizzare (stabilise), rendere stabile (stabilise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 안 시키십시" (stabilise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-soieaghey, beaynaghey (continuation, continue, fix, immortalize, lengthen, stabilization, stereotype). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abilizestay stabilizar, firmar (base, cement, clench, confirm, consolidate, embed, enplane, fasten, firm, fix, guy, hoop, implant, joggle, key, nail, plant, rivet, root, secure, set, sign, steady, stiffen, underwrite), estabilizar (compensate, poise, steady, valorize). (various references) stabiliza (peg, settle, steady). (various references) стабилизировать (steadied). (various references) stabilizovati, ustaliti (settle). (various references) estabilizar (ballast, make stable, make steady, peg, settle, take down). (various references) stabilisera (peg down). (various references) ทำให้คงที่, ทำให้มั่นคง, มั่นคง (foursquare, stabile, stable, steady, stedfast, sure). (various references) stabilize etmek, sağlamlaştırmak (cement, consolidate, consolidation, fasten down, firm, harden, make fast, make firm, reinforce, secure, solidify, strengthen), dengelemek (attemper, balance, cancel out, counterpoise, equalize, equilibrate, juggle, level, offset, poise), dengede tutmak (balance, equipoise, poise). (various references) pugtalandurmak (consolidate). (various references) стабілізувати (ballast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stabilize": stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizers, stabilizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "stabilize": destabilize, restabilize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stabilize": destabilized, destabilizes, gyrostabilizer, gyrostabilizers, restabilized, restabilizes. (additional references) | |
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"Stabilize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stabalize, stabelize, stabilire, stabilis, stabilise, stablize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stabilize" (pronounced stā"bulī'z) |
| 8 | s t ā" b u l ī' z | destabilize. |
| 5 | -b u l ī' z | cannibalize, demobilize, globalize, metabolize, mobilize, symbolize, verbalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, mineralize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, sterilize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: sibilate. | |
-2 letters: albites, alibies, astilbe, bailies, bastile, bestial, bialies, blastie, blitzes, laities, laziest, sizable, stabile, stibial. | |
-3 letters: ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, alibis, bailie, baizes, bezils, bialis, blazes, bleats, blites, lazies, liaise, saltie, stable, stelai, tables, tibiae, tibial, tibias, zibets. | |
-4 letters: abets, ables, aisle, alibi, alist, bails, baits, baize, bales, basil, baste, bates, beast, beats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-i-l-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: bestialize, stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizes. | |
+2 letters: bestialized, bestializes, destabilize, restabilize, satirizable, stabilizers. | |
+3 letters: bestializing, destabilized, destabilizes, detribalizes, restabilized, restabilizes. | |
+4 letters: destabilizing, embolizations, nebulizations, restabilizing, squeezability. | |
+5 letters: gyrostabilizer, verbalizations. | |
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