stable
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/ˈsteɪ.bəɫ/
English
Definitions
noun
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.“There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.”
- (metonymy) 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.
verb
- To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- To dwell in a stable.
- To park (a rail vehicle).
adjective
- Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.“He was in a stable relationship.”
- 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.”
- (of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
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Synonyms
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