stable

noun stables

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.

   Similar: horsebarn

2. metonymically All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
3. Scotland A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
4. An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

   Similar: heya

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.
6. slang A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp. My pimp vision enabled me to see that no hoe in my stable would be more worthy of the game than my young turnout red-bones.

   Similar: string

7. A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
8. A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array. This Article argues that to date, the Supreme Court has drawn from a narrow stable of arguments to create a fairly standard, yet coarse, analysis to consider when to apply proximate cause to statutes.

verb stables · stabling · stabled

1. transitive 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
2. intransitive To dwell in a stable.
3. transitive 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.

adjective stabler · more stable · stablest · most stable

1. Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed. He was in a stable relationship.

   Similar: fixed

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. of a sorting algorithm That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
4. of a filtration (M_n) of a module M over a ring with respect to an ideal (here I but often a,m,p etc.) of that ring Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.

Similar: unvarying · Opposite: instable, mobile, unstable, varying