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stable
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ste?.b??/
- Rhymes: -e?b?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable and Old French estable, from Latin stabulum (“stall, stand”).
Noun
stable (plural stables)
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
- (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
- (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
- Synonym: heya
- A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
- Synonym: string
- 2013, Noble Dee, Pimp: Reflection of My Life (page 167)
- 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.
Derived terms
- stablemate
Translations
Verb
stable (third-person singular simple present stables, present participle stabling, simple past and past participle stabled)
- (transitive) to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
- 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,
- "I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.
- 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,
- (intransitive) to dwell in a stable.
- (rail transport, transitive) to park (a rail vehicle).
Derived terms
- (rail transport): outstable
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stable, from Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”) (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”)).
Adjective
stable (comparative stabler or more stable, superlative stablest or most stable)
- Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- In this region of chance, […] where nothing ws stable.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- (computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
- (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
Synonyms
- (relatively unchanging): fixed, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:steady
Antonyms
- instable
- mobile
- unstable
- varying
Derived terms
- bistable
- instable
- tristable
- unistable
- unstable
Translations
Anagrams
- Bestla, ablest, ablets, bastle, belast, blates, bleats, tables
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stabilis. Replaced Middle French, Old French estable, an earlier borrowing from the same Latin source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stabl/
Adjective
stable (plural stables)
- stable (relatively unchanging)
Antonyms
- instable
Related terms
- stabiliser
- stabilité
Further reading
- “stable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- baltes, tables
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman stable, from Vulgar Latin *stabula, probably a collective plural of Latin stabulum (“dwelling; stable”).
Noun
stable (plural stables or stablen)
- stable (building for horses)
Alternative forms
- stabel, stabele, stabil, stabille, stabul, stabulle
Descendants
- English: stable
- Scots: stable
- ? Middle Irish: stábla
- Irish: stábla
- Scottish Gaelic: stàball
References
- “st?ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”).
Adjective
stable (comparative stabler or stablere or stablour)
- stable (relatively unchanging)
Alternative forms
- stabel, stabele, stabil, stabul
Descendants
- English: stable
- Scots: stable
References
- “st?ble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Noun
stable (plural stables)
- Alternative form of stablie
Etymology 4
Noun
stable (plural stables)
- Alternative form of stapel
Etymology 5
Verb
stable (third-person singular simple present stableth, present participle stablynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stabled)
- Alternative form of stablen (“to establish”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun stabel
Verb
stable (imperative stabl or stable, present tense stabler, passive stables, simple past and past participle stabla or stablet, present participle stablende)
- to stack, pile
References
- “stable” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “stable” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the noun stabel
Verb
stable (present tense stablar, past tense stabla, past participle stabla, passive infinitive stablast, present participle stablande, imperative stabl)
- to stack, pile
Alternative forms
- stabla
References
- “stable” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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true
English
Alternative forms
- trew, trewe (obsolete)
- troo (nonstandard)
- tr00 (leet)
Etymology
From Middle English trewe, from Old English tr?ewe, (Mercian) tr?owe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh?yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh?- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek ????? (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.
For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t?u?/
- (US) enPR: tr?? IPA(key): /t?u/, [t???ü]
- (archaic) IPA(key): /t?ju?/
- (now dialectal) IPA(key): /t????/
- Rhymes: -u?
Adjective
true (comparative truer or more true, superlative truest or most true)
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- Loyal, faithful.
- Genuine; legitimate.
- Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 8:
- Let be twice the value of a true die shown on the -th toss.
- 2006, Judith A. Baer, Leslie Friedman Goldstein, The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change ?ISBN
- In fact, few profit margins can be predicted with such reliability as those provided by a true roulette wheel or other game of chance.
- 2012, Peter Sprent, Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 5
- We do not reject, because 9 heads and 3 tails is in a set of reasonably likely results when we toss a true coin.
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 8:
- (Of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
Antonyms
- (of a statement, logic, loyal): false
- untrue
Derived terms
Related terms
- truth
Translations
Adverb
true (not comparable)
- (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
Translations
Noun
true (countable and uncountable, plural trues)
- (uncountable) The state of being in alignment.
- 1904, Lester Gray French, Machinery, Volume 10:
- Some toolmakers are very careless when drilling the first hole through work that is to be bored, claiming that if the drilled hole comes out of true somewhat it can be brought true with the boring tool.
- 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch! in Tales of the Jazz Age:
- She clapped her hands happily, and he thought how pretty she was really, that is, the upper part of her face—from the bridge of the nose down she was somewhat out of true.
- 1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing, ?ISBN, page 96:
- The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now. As the lift withdrew, the crate skidded with it, dragged by friction and gravity, skewing farther and farther from true.
- 1904, Lester Gray French, Machinery, Volume 10:
- (uncountable, obsolete) Truth.
- (countable, obsolete) A pledge or truce.
Derived terms
- in true
- out of true
Translations
Verb
true (third-person singular simple present trues, present participle trueing or truing, simple past and past participle trued)
- To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
- To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
Usage notes
- Often followed by up.
Derived terms
- true-up
Translations
Anagrams
- -uret, rute
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse þrúga, Proto-Germanic *þr?g?n?, cognate with Swedish truga. The verb is related to Danish trykke and German drücken (“to press”) (= *þrukkijan?), but apparently not to German drohen (“threaten”) (= *þraujan?) or English threaten (= *þraut?n?).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tru??/, [?t???u?u], [?t???o?o]
Verb
true (past tense truede, past participle truet)
- to threaten
Inflection
Further reading
- “true” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “true” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Middle English
Adjective
true
- Alternative form of trewe
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse þrúga
Verb
true (imperative tru, present tense truer, passive trues, simple past and past participle trua or truet)
- to threaten
Derived terms
- truende
- utrydningstruet
Related terms
- trussel
References
- “true” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- trua, truge
Etymology
From Old Norse þrúga
Verb
true (present tense truar, past tense trua, past participle trua, passive infinitive truast, present participle truande, imperative tru)
- to threaten
Related terms
- trussel
References
- “true” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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