stable
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Is stable a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (metonymic) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.metonymically
2. (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.Scotland
3. (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.Synonyms: heya
4. (professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.Examples: "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."
5. (slang) A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.Examples: "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."Synonyms: stringslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.Examples: "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."transitive
2. (intransitive) To dwell in a stable.intransitive
3. (rail transport, transitive) To park (a rail vehicle).Examples: "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."transitive
adj (English)
1. (computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.Examples: "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."
2. (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
3. (commutative algebra, 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.
Definition source: Wiktionary