stableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, singular derived from the plural Latin stab(u)la (“dwellings, stables”).

名詞

stable (複数形 stables)

1. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (かつ training) ungulates, especially horses.

   Synonym: horsebarn

   Coordinate terms: byre, sty

   There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2. (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
3. (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
4. (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

   Synonym: heya

5. (professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
   • 2022 September 17, Thomas Kika, “WWE's Logan Paul Confronts Roman Reigns Amid Rumors of Major Title Bout”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:

     Paul, who signed with WWE in late June, appeared in a segment with Reigns' stable, the Bloodline, on Friday's episode of SmackDown after making comments earlier in the week regarding a potential match with the Tribal Chief.

6. 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.

7. A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.

派生語

• Augean stables
• stablemate

動詞

stable (三人称単数 現在形 stables, 現在分詞 stabling, 過去形および過去分詞形 stabled)

1. (transitive) To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
   • 1883 September 25, R. H. Lundie, “Licensed Victuallers and Sunday-Closing”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 8807, published 26 September 1883, page 5, column 7:

     It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:

     "I hope your have been quite comfortable." ¶ "Never better stabled in my life," said Bree.

2. (intransitive) To dwell in a stable.
3. (rail transport, transitive) To park (a rail vehicle).
   • 1960 July, Trains Illustrated, page 385, photo caption:

     S.R. Pacific No. 34010 Sidmouth leaves Wembley Central to stable the stock of its excursion from the S.R. at North Wembley; the train was run in connection with a Wembley football event on April 30, 1960.

   • 2020 April 22, “Fleet News: Passenger operators put parts of fleet into warm storage...”, in Rail, page 25:

     Great Western Railway has placed its Class 143 Pacer fleet into warm storage, with the majority stabled at Exeter.

派生語

• (rail transport): outstable

関連する語

語源 2

From Middle English stable, from Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”) (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”)). Displaced native 古期英語 staþolfæst.

形容詞

stable (comparative stabler または more stable, superlative stablest または most stable)

1. Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

   He was in a stable relationship.

   a stable government

   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation

     In this region of chance, […] where nothing ws stable.

2. (computing) Of software: established 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 newer beta version has some bugs.

3. (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.

同意語

• (relatively unchanging): fixed, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:steady

反意語

• instable
• mobile
• unstable
• varying

派生語

• bistable
• instable
• tristable
• unistable
• unstable

アナグラム

• Bestla, ablest, ablets, bastle, belast, blates, bleats, tables