Corral vs Stable - What's the difference?
corral | stable |
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
To capture or round up.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
To place inside of a corral.
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=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.}}
(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
to put or keep (horse) in a stable.
(rail transport) to park (a rail vehicle)
Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
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As nouns the difference between corral and stable
is that corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one while stable is a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.As verbs the difference between corral and stable
is that corral is to capture or round up while stable is to put or keep (horse) in a stable.As an adjective stable is
relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.corral
English
Noun
(en noun)- We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
- Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
- The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.
Synonyms
* (livestock enclosure ): pen, stockadeSee also
* crawl (Jamaican English ) * kraal (South African English )Verb
(en-verb)Anagrams
* ----stable
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia stable) (etyl), from (etyl) estable, from (etyl) )Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stabl)Derived terms
* (rail transport) outstableEtymology 2
From (etyl) stabilis (itself from )Adjective
(en-adj)- He was in a stable relationship.
- a stable government
- In this region of chance, where nothing is stable .