Meaning of stable in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

  Example: 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.

• A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

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.

  Example: He was in a stable relationship.

• Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.

  Example: 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.