stable
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪ.bəl/
The English word “stable” has 15 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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, 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.
verb
adjective
- 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.
Etymology
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.
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