Stead vs Stable - What's the difference?
stead | stable |
(label) A place, or spot, in general.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene , II:
*:For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead , / But restlesse walketh all the world around.
(label) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
*1633 , P. Fletcher, Purple Island :
*:There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads .
(label) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.
*, Bk.VII:
*:Thus they fought two houres& in many stedys they were wounded.
(label) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
(label) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.
*1889 , H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife :
*:But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead , into my confidence.
(label) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead .
*1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :
*:She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead !
*2011 , "Kin selection", The Economist , 31 March:
*:Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead .
Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
*2010 , Dan van der Vat, The Guardian , 19 September:
*:Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
To fill place of.
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.
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
As nouns the difference between stead and stable
is that stead is (label) a place, or spot, in general 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 stead and stable
is that stead is to help; to support; to benefit; to assist 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.stead
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bedstead * homestead * in good stead * in one's stead * instead * sunstead * worksteadVerb
(en verb)- Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: [...]
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)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 .