stable
Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
Adjective
- Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
- He was in a stable relationship.
- His income of £10000 per month was stable for a healthy living.
- a stable government
- Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
- You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.
- That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
- of a module M over a ring with respect to an ideal (here I but often a,m,p etc.) of that ring) Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.
Origin
From Middle English stable, from Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”) (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”)). Displaced native Old English staþolfæst.
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acidostable acid-stable aerostable antistable astable biostable bistable chemostable cryostable dorsostable evolutionarily stable strategy halostable heterostable hydrostable hyperstable hypostable innermost stable circular orbit instable isostable mechanostable mesostable metastable monostable multistable
Noun
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
- There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he...
Synonyms: horsebarn
- All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
- An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
Synonyms: heya
- A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
- Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal...
- A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
- My pimp vision enabled me to see that no hoe in my stable would be more worthy of the game than my young turnout red-bones. - 2013, Noble Dee, Pimp: Reflection of My Life, page 167:
Synonyms: string
- A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
- A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
- This Article argues that to date, the Supreme Court has drawn from a narrow stable of arguments to create a fairly standard, yet coarse, analysis to consider when to apply proximate cause to statutes. - 2013, Sandra F....
- Built into the popular conception of the genius mythos in the sciences is something more than mere intelligence; the solitary free-thinking scientist is also expected to showcase a proclivity for eccentricity, rule...
Origin
From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
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Augean stables boarding stable close the stable door after the horse has been stolen close the stable door after the horse has bolted livery stable lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen lock the stable door after the horse has bolted shelf-stable shut the stable door after the horse has bolted stable boy stable fly stableful stable girl stablehand stablekeeper stable lad stableless stablelike stableman stablemaster stablemate stable-stand stable vice stableward
Verb
- To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in...
- "I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree. - 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
- To dwell in a stable.
- To park (a rail vehicle).
- S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960. - 1960 July,...
- Great Western Railway has placed its Class 143 Pacer fleet into warm storage, with the majority stabled at Exeter. - 2020 April 22, “Fleet News: Passenger operators put parts of fleet into warm storage...”, in Rail,...