stable
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
professional-wrestling
rail-transport
railways
science
sciences
sports
sumo
transport
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
Inflected forms:
form: stables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stables
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: stables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stabled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stables
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: stabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more stable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stablest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most stable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
pos: noun
examples: 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 appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
gloss: All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
gloss: A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
pos: noun
examples: 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 Chief.
gloss: A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
pos: noun
gloss: A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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 breaking, and unconventional thinking and behavior. But when it comes to the abuse of scientific power for sexual predation, this stable of behaviors represents a slippery slope.
gloss: To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.
"I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.
gloss: To dwell in a stable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To park (a rail vehicle).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Great Western Railway has placed its Class 143 Pacer fleet into warm storage, with the majority stabled at Exeter.
gloss: Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
pos: adj
examples: He was in a stable relationship.
His income of £10000 per month was stable for a healthy living.
a stable government
In this region of chance, […] where nothing ws stable.
And to whoever that cry hath ever come he must needs follow and follow, leaving all stable things; only to be always with Slid in all the moods of Slid, to find no rest until he reaches the sea.
gloss: Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
pos: adj
gloss: Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.
pos: adj
Synonyms: unvarying
Antonyms: instable
mobile
unstable
varying
Related words: restable
stabled
stabler
stabling siding
Derived words: 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
stablewards
stablewoman
stableyard
outstable
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
nonstable
observationally stable
overstable
photostable
polystable
quasistable
semistable
stabilify
stabiliment
stabilize
stablecoin
stable equilibrium
stable fixation
stable marriage problem
stableness
stably
superstable
thermostable
tristable
ultrastable
understable
unistable
unstable
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