Stable vs Security - What's the difference?
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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.
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.
* Rogers
(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
(countable) Something that secures.
An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
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, title= (legal) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
(legal) Freedom from apprehension.
(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
A guarantee.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between stable and security
is that stable is a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses while security is the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.As a verb 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.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 .
Synonyms
* fixedAntonyms
* instable * mobileAnagrams
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English
(wikipedia security)Alternative forms
* secuerity (mostly obsolete)Noun
- Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security .
- Some alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
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- Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
- He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, / Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security , / Grows strong and great in substance and in power.