stableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈsteɪ.bəl/, [ˈsteɪ.bl̩]
• ハイフネーション: sta‧ble
• 韻: -eɪbəl

語源 1

From 中期英語 stable, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stable, from Latin stab(u)lum.

別の表記

• stables (British)

名詞

stable (plural stables)

1. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and 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. (metonymic) 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:

     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. (slang) 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.
8. A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
   • 2013, Sandra F. Sperino, “Statutory Proximate Cause”, in Notre Dame Law Review, volume 88, number 3, page 1207:

     This Article argues that to date, the Supreme Court has drawn from a narrow stable of arguments to create a fairly standard, yet coarse, analysis to consider when to apply proximate cause to statutes.

   • 2019 January, Leila McNeill, “Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman”, in The Baffler‎, number 43:

     Built into the popular conception of the genius mythos in the sciences is something more than mere intelligence; the solitary free-thinking scientist is also expected to showcase a proclivity for eccentricity, rule breaking, and unconventional thinking and behavior. But when it comes to the abuse of scientific power for sexual predation, this stable of behaviors represents a slippery slope.

派生語

動詞

stable (third-person singular simple present stables, present participle stabling, simple past and past participle 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 中期英語 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 or more stable, superlative stablest or most stable)

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

   He was in a stable relationship.

   His income of £10000 per month was stable for a healthy living.

   a stable government

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

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

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 16:

     And to whoever that cry hath ever come he must needs follow and follow, leaving all stable things; only to be always with Slid in all the moods of Slid, to find no rest until he reaches the sea.

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.
4. (commutative algebra, of a filtration ${\displaystyle (M_{n})}$ of a module ${\displaystyle M}$ over a ring with respect to an ideal (here ${\displaystyle I}$ but often ${\displaystyle a,m,p}$ etc.) of that ring) Eventually satisfying the identity ${\displaystyle IM_{n}=M_{n+1}}$.

同意語

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

反意語

• instable
• mobile
• unstable
• varying

派生語

アナグラム

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

名詞

stable (plural stables or stablen)

1. stable (building for horses)
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 28–29:

     The chambres and the stables weren wyde, / And wel we weren esed atte beste;

     The rooms and stables spacious were and wide, / And well we there were eased, and of the best.

別の表記

• stabel, stabele, stabil, stabille, stabul, stabulle

派生した語

• English: stable
• Scots: stable
• → Middle Irish: stábla
  • Irish: stábla
  • Scottish Gaelic: stàball

参照

• “stāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”).

形容詞

stable (comparative stabler or stablere or stablour)

1. stable (relatively unchanging)

別の表記

• stabel, stabele, stabil, stabul

派生した語

• English: stable
• Scots: stable

参照

• “stāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

名詞

stable (plural stables)

1. alternative form of stablie

語源 4

名詞

stable (plural stables)

1. alternative form of stapel

語源 5

動詞

stable (third-person singular simple present stableth, present participle stablende, stablynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stabled)

1. alternative form of stablen (“to establish”)