stable

Significat

Noun

1. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
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.
6. A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
7. A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.

Verb

1. To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
2. To dwell in a stable.
3. To park (a rail vehicle).

Adj

1. Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
2. Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
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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sta‧ble

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsteɪbl̩/

Etimologia

From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, singular derived from the plural Latin stab(u)la (“dwellings, stables”).

Sents

It's no use closing the stable door , after the horse has bolted .