different between stabiliser vs tragacanth

English

Etymology

stabilise +? -er

Noun

stabiliser (plural stabilisers)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of stabilizer

Derived terms

• gyrostabiliser

Anagrams

• tribalises

French

Etymology

stable +? -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.bi.li.ze/

Verb

stabiliser

1. (transitive) to stabilise
2. (reflexive, se stabiliser) to stabilise

Conjugation

Related terms

• déstabiliser
• stabilisation
• stabilité
• stable

Further reading

• “stabiliser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stabiliser

1. imperative of stabilisere

English

Etymology

From Latin tragacantha, from Koine Greek ?????????? (tragákantha, “tragacanth”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (trágos, “he-goat”) + ?????? (ákantha, “thorn”). Doublet of adragant.

Noun

tragacanth (countable and uncountable, plural tragacanths)

1. A polysaccharide gum, extracted from several species of leguminous plants of the genus Astragalus, formerly used medicinally and now as a food additive. Also more fully gum tragacanth. [from 16th c.]
   • 1844, E.A.Poe, Marginalia

     Where what I have to note is too much to be included within the narrow limits of a margin, I commit it to a slip of paper, and deposit it between the leaves; taking care to secure it by an imperceptible portion of gum tragacanth paste.

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:

     There would have been many gums and resins in these markets for our lute-maker to bind his wood with: […] gum tragacanth from Aleppo, which would be sold as thin and wrinkled worm-like pieces of shrub.

Synonyms

• E413 when used as a thickener, stabiliser and emulsifier

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