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# stabilising

«stabilising» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making something steady and less likely to move, fall or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (stabilise, stabilises, stabilised, stabilising — -ing form); adjective (stabilising)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making something steady and less likely to move, fall or change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#m1)

2) Becoming steady after a time of change, like prices, weather or a patient's health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#m2)

3) (adjective) Helping to keep something steady: «stabilising wheels», «stabilising effect». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and technology lessons, a wide base or extra wheels stabilise a model; on bikes, stabilisers (UK; training wheels, USA) help young riders. In health news, a patient's condition is «stabilising» after an emergency. In money news, prices are stabilising after rises.

### examples

- The doctors are stabilising the injured man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x1)
- His temperature is stabilising now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x2)
- Stabilising wheels help small children learn to ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x3)
- The wide base is stabilising the tower so it won't topple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x4)
- Prices are slowly stabilising after a big jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x5)
- The ship has fins for stabilising it in rough seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stabilising/#x6)

### note

UK spelling «stabilise, stabilising», US «stabilize, stabilizing». Noun: stabiliser/stabilizer, stability. Adjective «stable» (steady); opposite «unstable».

### Trees and pragmatics

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