Stable
So placed as to resist forces tending to cause motion; of such structure as to resist distortion or molecular or chemical disturbance; -- said of any body or substance.
Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
To fix; to establish.
A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
To put or keep in a stable.
To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
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Stable Quotations
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. Edwards Deming
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence
I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
Linda Vester
Stable Translations
stable in Danish is fast
stable in Dutch is stevig, vast, hecht, gevestigd
stable in Finnish is luja
stable in German is dauerhaft, Stall, haltbar
stable in Italian is stanla, stalla
stable in Latin is inconcussus, stabilis
stable in Norwegian is stall
stable in Spanish is corral, esatble, establo, caballeriza, estable
stable in Swedish is stabil, stall
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