stable meaning
EN
[ˈsteɪ.bəl] [-eɪbəl] WStable
- A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building that is divided into separate stalls for individual animals.
- The exterior design of a stable can vary widely, based on climate, building materials, historical period and cultural styles of architecture. A wide range of building materials can be used, including masonry (bricks or stone), wood and steel.
FR stable 
- NounPLstablesSUF-able
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
- There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
- (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
- VerbSGstablesPRstablingPT, PPstabled
- AdjectiveCOMstablerCOMmore stableSUPstablestSUPmost stable
- Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
- He was in a stable relationship.
- a stable government
- (computing) Said of a version of software that has been tested and is believed to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
- You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software, it is the latest stable version. The version 2.0 is beta, it has more features but is known to freeze randomly.
- Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The stable karyotypical macrostructure and the basal position of B.
- In the special case of cofinal 2-graphs we further prove that AF-embeddability, quasidiagonality and stable finiteness of the 2-graph algebra are all equivalent.
- The number of players will diminish, but the strong players may be stabler after the crisis.”
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Last night’s programme – the first of a series of three – was another unwayward beast from the Worsley stable.
- Upon a hanging ledge of rock unstable, / Th' unsurest spot that may in earth be found, / Showing to all that she is never stable.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stable in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "stable" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.