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What is the difference between stable and secure?

stable | secure |

Secure is a synonym of stable.



As verbs the difference between stable and secure

is that stable is to put or keep (horse) in a stable while secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

As adjectives the difference between stable and secure

is that stable is relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed while secure is free from attack or danger; protected.

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.

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.
  • *
  • , 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.
  • Verb

    (stabl)
  • to put or keep (horse) in a stable.
  • (rail transport) to park (a rail vehicle)
  • Derived terms
    * (rail transport) outstable

    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

    Anagrams

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    secure

    English

    Alternative forms

    * secuer (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Free from attack or danger; protected.
  • Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  • Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  • Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  • * Dryden
  • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
  • Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
  • Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  • Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
  • secure of a welcome
  • * Milton
  • Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
  • Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  • (Macaulay)

    Antonyms

    * insecure

    Derived terms

    * securely

    Verb

    (secur)
  • To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  • * Dryden
  • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
  • To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
  • to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
  • * T. Dick
  • It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
  • To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
  • to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  • To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
  • to secure an estate
  • * 2014 , Jamie Jackson, " Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
  • With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
    "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress." (Flight, 1911, p. 766)
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

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