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stable
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[ adjective ] resistant to change of position or condition
Examples "a stable ladder" "a stable peace" "a stable relationship" "stable prices" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)And perhaps an observer of the vases will not go_too_far in deducing that the outlook of their makers and users was basically stable and secure . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Thus every part and plane of the picture keeps changing place in relative depth with every_other part and plane ; and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface . Related terms unstable firm stabilised stabilized lasting stabile permanent steady constant |
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[ noun ] (agriculture) a farm building for housing horses or other livestock
Synonyms Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Violet whinnied from the stable . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)And that was why , on the day of the performance , when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace , he did not bother to shave . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Even the stable garage , which housed nothing now but the scent of rot , had a lawn before it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation
Examples "the economy is stable" Used in print (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)As a nation , we feel an obligation to assist other countries in their development ; but this obligation pertains only to countries which are honestly seeking to become responsible members of a stable and forward-moving world community . But these countries have made big strides toward developing the necessary human and social overhead capital ; they have established reasonably stable and effective governmental institutions at national and local levels ; and they have begun to develop a capacity to deal realistically and simultaneously with all the major sectors of their economies . Related terms |
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[ verb ] shelter in a stable
Examples "stable horses" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Every morning early , in the summer , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells , carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung , and stabled them , a weird faery herd , in an angle between the high roots of the tulip_tree , where no grass grew in the dense shade . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (chemistry) not taking part readily in chemical change
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[ adjective ] maintaining equilibrium
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[ adjective ] showing little if any change
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