stable

/ˈsteɪ.bəɫ/ · noun

Meaning

A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
(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.
To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
To dwell in a stable.
To park (a rail vehicle).
Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
(of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.

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