stable

Meanings

Plural: stables

Noun

• a farm building for housing horses or other livestock
• A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
• 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.
• A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
• A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
• A group of people who are looked after, mentored, 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.

Verb

• shelter in a stable
  • "stable horses"
• To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
• To dwell in a stable.
• To park (a rail vehicle).

Adjective

• resistant to change of position or condition
  • "a stable ladder"
  • "a stable peace"
  • "a stable relationship"
  • "stable prices"

Adjective Satellite

• firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation
  • "the economy is stable"
• not taking part readily in chemical change
• maintaining equilibrium
• showing little if any change

Adj

• Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
• Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
• That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
• Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.

Synonyms

fixed, heya, horse barn, horsebarn, stalls, static, steady, string, unchanging, unvarying

Antonyms

instable, mobile, unstable, varying

Related Words

restable, stabled, stabler, stabling siding

Anagrams of stable