transcription, транскрипция: [ steɪb(ə)l ]
( stabler, stablest, stables)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something is stable , it is not likely to change or come to an end suddenly.
The price of oil should remain stable for the rest of 1992.
...a stable marriage.
ADJ
• sta‧bil‧ity
It was a time of political stability and progress.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If someone has a stable personality, they are calm and reasonable and their mood does not change suddenly.
Their characters are fully formed and they are both very stable children.
≠ unstable
ADJ
3.
You can describe someone who is seriously ill as stable when their condition has stopped getting worse.
The injured man was in a stable condition.
ADJ
4.
Chemical substances are described as stable when they tend to remain in the same chemical or atomic state. ( TECHNICAL )
The less stable compounds were converted into a compound called Delta-A THC.
ADJ
5.
If an object is stable , it is firmly fixed in position and is not likely to move or fall.
This structure must be stable.
≠ unstable
ADJ
6.
A stable or stables is a building in which horses are kept.
N-COUNT
7.
A stable or stables is an organization that breeds and trains horses for racing.
Miss Curling won on two horses from Mick Trickey’s stable.
N-COUNT
8.
When horses are stabled , they are put into a stable.
The animals had been fed and stabled...
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed