stable
IPA: stˈeɪbʌɫ
noun
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
- (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
- (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
- (professional wrestling) 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.
verb
- (transitive) To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- (intransitive) To dwell in a stable.
- (rail transport, transitive) To park (a rail vehicle).
adjective
- Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
- (computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
- (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
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Examples of "stable" in Sentences
- The person should be stable.
- The financial income is stable.
- The stable was named The Cabinet.
- The pigment is extraordinarily stable.
- All the rest of the article is stable.
- The patient is clinically stable for discharge.
- At the critical angle, the vehicle is marginally stable.
- A paddock and stable are on the southern border of the garden.
- Hence, the deviation is discouraged and the equilibrium is stable.
- For each of the 80 stable elements the number of the stable isotopes is given.
- But you are what we call stable, and that's the best we can hope for in this place.
- China and the U.S. have maintained what he describes as stable development, said Li.
- During that interview, the journalist asked me why I used the word stable or zoo in my previous interview and I explained it in detail.
- The prospect that the country will stabilize soon (as opposed to eventually) and remain stable is not a reason for regarding the war as “successful” on the whole, though it might be a reason for thinking it was or is right to stick it out.
- The term stable refers to a version of software that is substantially identical to a version that has been through enough real-world testing to reasonably assume there are no significant problems, or at least that any problems are known and documented.
- The term stable refers to a version of software that is substantially identical to a version that has been through enough real-world testing to reasonably assume there are no showstopper problems, or at least that any problems are known and documented.
- Using what they call stable isotope analysis, bioarchaeologists can directly determine the dietary sources of carbon and nitrogen by measuring the ratios of carbon 12 and carbon 13 atoms, on the one hand, and of nitrogen 14 and nitrogen 15 atoms on the other.
- You see, I hope, what I mean, when I say that the universe of molecular physics is at a different level from the universe of common experience; — what we call stable and solid is in that world a freely moving system of interlacing centres of force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of vibration or that.