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# stabiliser

«stabiliser» in Mova's school dictionary: **the two small extra wheels on the back of a child's…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stabiliser, stabilisers; US stabilizer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK) Stabilisers are the two small extra wheels on the back of a child's bicycle that stop it falling over while you learn to ride (US: training wheels). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#m1)

2) A stabiliser is any part or device that keeps something steady, such as the fins on a ship or the small horizontal wings at the back of an aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#m2)

3) (food, science) A stabiliser is a substance added to food or chemicals to keep them mixed and stop them changing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children learn to ride a bike "without stabilisers". In science and D and T lessons stabilisers keep boats, planes and structures balanced. On food labels, stabilisers are listed among ingredients (for example in ice cream). Phrases: "take off the stabilisers", "ride without stabilisers".

### examples

- I learned to ride without stabilisers when I was five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x1)
- Dad took the stabilisers off my bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x2)
- In America they call stabilisers training wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x3)
- Big ships have stabilisers to stop them rolling in waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x4)
- The ice cream has a stabiliser to keep it smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x5)
- The plane's stabiliser helps it fly straight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x6)
- She still needs stabilisers on her bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/#x7)

### note

UK spelling with s (stabiliser); US with z (stabilizer). Verb: stabilise. Countable: a stabiliser, stabilisers. "Training wheels" is the US and Canadian word for bike stabilisers.

### In the corpora

- [Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so you never learn this steering, which is why balance bikes with no pedals teach children faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/3/)
- [Stabilisers stop the bike tipping, so children never practise steering into a lean, while balance bikes teach that steering first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/9-riding-a-bike/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stabiliser» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabiliser/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.