stable

UK /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ US /ˈsteɪ.bəl/
noun 5adj 4verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2

All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

3

A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

4

An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

5

A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.

Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal Chief.

verb

1

To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.

It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.

"I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.

2

To dwell in a stable.

3

To park (a rail vehicle).

S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960.

Great Western Railway has placed its Class 143 Pacer fleet into warm storage, with the majority stabled at Exeter.

adj

1

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.

2

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.

3

That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.

4

Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.

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