stable
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
To dwell in a stable.
To park (a rail vehicle).
Adjective 4 meanings
Relatively unchanging, steady, 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.”
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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STABLE at a glance
STABLE has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + T 1 + A 1 + B 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,076 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with stable
All rhymes- ABLE6
- POSSIBLE12
- AVAILABLE14
- TABLE7
- DOUBLE9
- RESPONSIBLE15
- TROUBLE9
- IMPOSSIBLE16
- TERRIBLE10
- COMFORTABLE20
- INCREDIBLE15
- CAPABLE13
One letter away
- STAPLE8
- STABLY11
- SUABLE8
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