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Labile vs Stable - What's the difference?

labile | stable |

As adjectives the difference between labile and stable

is that labile is liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize while stable is relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

As a noun stable is

a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

As a verb stable is

to put or keep (horse) in a stable.

labile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  • Apt or likely to change.
  • *, II.12:
    • Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile .
  • (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
    • Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
    Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.

    Related terms

    * frigolabile * lability * lapse

    Derived terms

    * labile verb

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    stable

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia stable) (etyl), from (etyl) estable, from (etyl) )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
  • *
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  • (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

    • Verb

    (stabl)
  • to put or keep (horse) in a stable.
  • (rail transport) to park (a rail vehicle)
    • Derived terms
    * (rail transport) outstable
    Related terms
    * stabled * stabler * stable-boy * stable-hand

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stabilis (itself from )

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
    • He was in a stable relationship.
    a stable government
  • * Rogers
    • In this region of chance, where nothing is stable .
    Synonyms
    * fixed
    Antonyms
    * instable * mobile

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