I. adjective
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a secure/stable home (= a caring family without a lot of changes )
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He had grown up in a stable home.
a stable environment (= without any big changes )
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They argued that being married helps provide a stable environment for bringing up children.
list sb in fair/stable etc condition
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Several passengers were listed in critical condition.
riding school/stables (= place where people learn to ride horses )
stable boy
stable girl
stable (= not likely to rise or fall suddenly )
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The government want to maintain a stable currency.
stable (= steady, rather than being strong then weak )
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The economy has been relatively stable for the last two or three years.
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■ ADVERB
as
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Santorini is about as stable as the proverbial blancmange.
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He also received surgery at Broomfield Hospital, and his condition was later described as stable .
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A society with n independent currencies should be times as stable as one with a single currency.
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His condition yesterday was described as stable and comfortable.
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Nothing in this countryside is ever as stable as people would like it to be.
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A hospital spokesman said: Paul is still ill, but can now be described as stable .
fairly
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Monetarists argue that the demand for money is inelastic with respect to interest rates and also fairly stable over time.
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Probably, although surely there is a core of fairly stable synapses.
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This proportionate share of crime has remained fairly stable during the past decade.
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After the Second World War, the numbers received annually kept fairly stable , unlike the parallel figures for men.
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Prices of cocaine, crack and heroin were fairly stable in 1989 and 1990.
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Since then immigration has been fairly stable .
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Secondly, under a wide variety of circumstances, what we see in various situations remains fairly stable .
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The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time, but the main lines remained fairly stable .
less
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Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups.
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On a geologic time scale of millions to hundreds of millions of years, Earth is far less stable .
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There was particular caution where London was concerned since communities were less stable .
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The presence of hydrogen means they are less stable in the atmosphere, leading to a greatly reduced atmospheric residence time.
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This suggests the Whites were a more transient, less stable population.
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External frames are sometimes available, but are less stable to carry.
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Howard protested about overcrowding in conditions of a more or less stable prison population.
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His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men.
more
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By mid-1983, more stable oil prices helped slow the rate of inflation, and employment prospects looked rather brighter.
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This is in contrast to most enzymes which are more stable refrigerated or frozen. 313.
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Gurney reckons this design makes the bike more stable because the centre of gravity is lower.
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Windows 95, as part of its multitasking features, is more stable in other ways, too.
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The mooring is more stable and less vulnerable to weather than that at Dunbar.
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I can report that this version is more stable , with one exception.
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Since electrons are more stable when paired together in orbitals, radicals are generally more reactive than non-radicals.
most
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The aim is to find the most stable balance achievable, at the lowest possible level.
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Milken devised a way to transform the bonds of the most stable companies to junk: leveraged corporate take-overs.
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The community that showed the most stable and consistent patterns of gender-differentiation was the East Belfast Ballymacarrett community.
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The method used to build the most stable and convenient structure possible will vary with the soil texture and climate.
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Quartz, on the other hand, is the most stable and crystallizes at the lowest temperature.
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Its body shape means it is one of the most stable road vehicles in crosswinds.
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Since the future mouth region provides the most stable contact sites, the gut is pulled gradually to that region.
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This means that water is not in its most stable state at this temperature and pressure.
reasonably
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The United States had provided a reasonably stable inflationary ceiling up to the mid-sixties.
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For these reasons, most finns strive to maintain a reasonably stable dividend payment from year to year.
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At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years.
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High slack systems are those organizations operating with an abundance of resources in reasonably stable and minimally competitive environments.
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In fact the adduct was reasonably stable at room temperature and in solutions of up to 20 percent water content.
relatively
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However, the prices of rugs from each individual weaving group remain relatively stable in relation to those of others.
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The existence of rules that ensure that complex and relatively stable structures emerge in the universe suggests an intelligent rule-giver.
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This is why the pound has been relatively stable against the dollar.
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Thus the relatively stable East Midlands Platform has not undergone post-Permian vertical movements of some 2500 m indicated by the vitrinite data.
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Exchange rates have also been relatively stable in the last two years.
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That happened in 1990, not last year, when the figures were relatively stable .
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By contrast the middle-class area has a relatively stable and prosperous population.
very
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This is a very stable tent with ample room.
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He was clearly not a very stable person.
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So far we have not lost any member because of the recession, largely because our membership is very stable financially.
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Buckminsterfullerene is a very stable molecule made of pure carbon.
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Most polar fish live in waters at temperature that are very stable and close to 0°C.
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Happily, it was generally very stable air when we did this.
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For many months there was a very stable weather pattern affecting most of the northern hemisphere.
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And it grips the road well and feels very stable in comparison to others in the supermini class.
■ NOUN
block
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The three white mares shared their stable block with a group of Shetland ponies.
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At the side of the house, across a cobbled yard, lay an L-shaped stable block .
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Only the stable block now survives as Elizabeth would have seen it.
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No sign of Ward, but I could hear the murmur of voices from the direction of the stable block .
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They disappeared into the stable block .
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The Tudor stable block contains an exhibition about the Battle of Quebec.
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An old stable block houses the Garden Centre Shop with an exclusive range of products, gifts and plants.
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The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house.
condition
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The bistable will now be in a stable condition .
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He is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Kaiser Medical Center in Vallejo.
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Last night the hospitals said Jason was poorly and Neil was in a stable condition .
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Tonight the baby is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.
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A nursing supervisor Monday morning said they were in stable condition .
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Tonight he's in a critical, but stable condition .
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He was listed in stable condition .
currency
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Most people want to be paid in a valuable, stable currency that is a sound store of wealth.
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A country that maintains a strong banking system and a strong, stable currency reaps real rewards.
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Then, both of the conditions on which authentic democracy depends, near-full employment and a stable currency , will have gone.
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And a stable currency gives industry a chance to realise the potential released by the reforms of the 1990s.
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We will promote enterprise through low taxes, sound money and a stable currency .
democracy
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It really is rather unusual for a more or less stable democracy to undertake changes of this scope in peacetime.
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Yet the path to stable democracy , efficient market economy and social justice is a hard one. 5.
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Open and moderate partisanship, then, are essential to a stable democracy .
door
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The top half of the stable door was open but Waldegrave had apparently closed the bottom behind him.
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Corrigan remembered the people coming up to the stable door and begging food or work.
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Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled.
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Control in most cases is ex post facto and akin to closing the stable door when the horse has bolted.
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This really was an attempt to bolt the stable door after the horses had bolted.
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His hand was stroking a rug flung over the stable door .
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To lock up young car thieves is another example of bolting the stable door after the horse has fled.
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Though it's a bit like shutting the stable door .
environment
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The bureaucratic style can be very efficient in a stable environment and when the organisation is of a large size.
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It was an inexpensive, safe, stable environment for families while they got back on their feet.
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Once you've done them, people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment .
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But although the sea is overall a stable environment , it is not unvarying.
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Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste.
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If the organisation is in a stable environment then such formality may be no bad thing.
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Unhealthy Environment A stable environment can, unfortunately, be an unhealthy one.
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Animals rarely live in completely stable environments .
government
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Our aim will be the creation of stable government for a whole Parliament and a more democratic basis for future elections.
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Our goal is a stable government there, carrying on a struggle to maintain its national independence.
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The revisionist theorists were also, however, much concerned with strong and stable government .
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Investors hoped then the team of ex-Communist leaders would bring quicker reforms and a more stable government .
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It is hoped that a stable government-of whatever party-will emerge from this month's election.
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He and other analysts figure that formation of a stable government would draw in more foreign investment, buoying the market.
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But there is a long way to go before he establishes a stable government that can put these qualities into action.
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At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years.
isotope
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Each case has to be considered on its merits where an ambiguous answer emerges from the stable isotope data.
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A stable isotope of potassium, 9K, is converted to 39Ar by neutron bombardment of the sample to be dated.
lad
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A young stable lad led out another horse, and stood waiting for the one which the smith had almost finished shoeing.
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He was a stable lad at Kingsley House, Middleham, at the time.
price
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For the people, this meant stable price levels, rising living standards, and increased employment opportunities.
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Hence $ 3 is the only stable price of corn under the supply and demand conditions shown in Table 4-8.
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Government was able to claim to have maintained full employment, an expanding economy, stable prices , and a strong pound.
relationship
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The others lack the faculties to stay in sport and so lose the option to form a stable relationship with the coach.
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And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future!
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Lesbian lovers are not nasty, they are told, but women involved in stable relationships .
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Some older teenagers are married or in stable relationships within which having a baby is a wanted event.
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Of 88 opioid users in stable relationships , 43 percent stated that their partner also used drugs.
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To finance any investment plans decided on by his board, he kept a pretty stable relationship with the firm's banks.
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About half said they were in stable relationships .
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The father, who had established a stable relationship with another woman, wanted the children to live with him.
society
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He has no memory of any such difficulties, only of how stable society was then.
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A little religion is thought, furthermore, to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society .
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It was an unspectacular, stable society , like the Basque Provinces enjoying a large degree of local autonomy.
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Thus an ordered and stable society requires shared norms and values.
state
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Species, then, are real, even if they do not represent different stable states of matter.
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This occurs when the disturbance is dissipated by direct return to a strongly stable state .
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It produces a state of homeostasis, a mechanism which enables a system to remain in a stable state through time.
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This means that water is not in its most stable state at this temperature and pressure.
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It must have reached thermodynamic equilibrium over the years, and represents the most stable state for this composition.
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The most stable state of could well be polystyrene; that of might well be polyester.
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Connecting a diode in parallel with the capacitor C converts the astable multivibrator into a monostable multivibrator with one stable state .
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From time to time various members of this population will move from a stable state to having a special status.
yard
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They rode out of the stable yard .
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Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted.
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Then we parted, I went on and she went back with Blazer to the stable yard .
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The stable yard fraternity is seldom short of the picturesque word.
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It was a stable yard all right.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stable family environment
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a stable government
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Fuel prices have become more stable after several increases last year.
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His temperature remained stable throughout the night.
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Most people described her as a stable , intelligent woman.
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That chair doesn't look very stable .
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But these sports are introduced against a stable background.
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Given these planning parameters, one would predict a stable residential village with some river-related industrial growth.
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In particular it seems to be required to be quiet, stable and relatively slow.
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The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli's genome.
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This is a very stable tent with ample room.
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Yet with material security and a stable culture, all of them parented more successfully than their own parents had.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Nicholson's fine form since his move to new stables over the summer adds to confidence.
riding
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Tennis courts and riding stables are planned for summer 1992.
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She hated school and left at sixteen to go and train in a riding stables to be an instructor.
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Now back working at her own riding stables , Anne Haine offered this encouragement.
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She left the riding stables and went on the dole.
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They own a pony at the riding stables .
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He owns some horses at the riding stable too.
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My Auntie runs the riding stables with her work partner. has a pony on loan.
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That's what your guide captain said to me once - or was it Mrs Tyson at the riding stables ?
■ NOUN
livery
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We went next door to the livery stable and woke up the owner, who was sleeping on the porch.
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I reined in the horse, turned around, and went back to the livery stable .
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The room was still dark, and behind me, the livery stable was quiet.
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I heard the men shouting in the livery stable .
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Frank, I thought, must be taking his bath in the livery stable .
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The metal trim on the livery stable was gleaming like molten brass.
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But I went to the livery stable and asked Mr Emmett if I could hire a horse for four or five hours.
■ VERB
build
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On 26 April 1792 it was agreed that Messrs Howell and Russell should build the stables for £2,850.
keep
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In these circumstances licence conditions, a grid code and other technical rules may not suffice to keep the system stable .
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From the collapse of Soviet command-style economies, we know that open information keeps an economy stable and growing.
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Indeed, for a while, Odette managed to keep her weight stable .
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Larger-than-expected spending cuts are being imposed to keep the franc stable .
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Twenty horses he kept at stables on the Lartington Hall estate were taken away overnight.
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That is enough to dock 6p off the basic rate of income tax and still keep the public-debt ratio stable .
ride
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They rode out from the stables in comparative silence, the groom a little way behind as befitted his position.
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They sell to private individuals, families and riding stables , he said.
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He had taken the opportunity of riding for a big stable with both hands and notched his first Group race victory.
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Quinta do Lago's 1,700 acres include golf courses, tennis courts, riding stables , water sports and strictly-controlled development.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ohio's football team has a talented stable of freshmen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dazzling beam of light fell through the windows that looked out to the stables.
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A little girl playing the part of Mary was asked by the teacher to imagine how Mary would be feeling in the stables.
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Kay Wimhurst, defending, said Zipfel had no full-time job but earned £15 helping out at stables.
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Old farm cart sheds, cleanly converted, do make good stables.
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Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful.
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The visit to the stables is just a bonus.
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There are two nearby stables for guests interested in trail rides.
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When, at last, the ground closed over her, he led Gracie back to the stables.
III. verb
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■ NOUN
horse
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He stabled his horse at the rear, and pushed open the inn door.
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He came back, stabled the horse and came in to break fast with us.
horses
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His father, a builder and carrier, was one of the first carters to stable his horses in favour of steam traction lorries.
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They stabled their horses round the back and bedded amongst dry hay with their cloaks wrapped round them.
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They stabled their horses and pushed their way through the noisy, colourful streets.
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They stabled their horses and hired a wherry at the Wool Quay.
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They stabled their horses and did not enter the tavern but passed into a pleasant garden beyond.
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They stabled their horses at the ferrymaster's house, paying for their fodder and keep until they returned.
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After stabling our horses , my master muttered that he had business to attend to and wandered off to his chamber.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A farm-worker who lived in the house would stable him and give him water and a handful of hay.
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Corbett reckoned horses had been stabled there within the last two or three months.
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I don't want them stabling their mounts here, it'd be too conspicuous.
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In the beginning they stabled them at Bakehouse Farm, on the A5.
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Isn't it true that some one tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago?
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They stabled their horses round the back and bedded amongst dry hay with their cloaks wrapped round them.