stable.
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
Meaning & usage
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.
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, 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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *sth₂dʰlóm Proto-Italic *staðlom Latin stab(u)lum Anglo-Norman stablebor. Middle English stable English stable Inherited from Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum. From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
To dwell in a stable.
To park (a rail vehicle).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *sth₂dʰlóm Proto-Italic *staðlom Latin stab(u)lum Anglo-Norman stablebor. Middle English stable English stable Inherited from Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum. From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.
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.
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.
Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.
Where this word comes from
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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