Stable vs Stud - 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
A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
A group of such animals.
* Macaulay
* Sir W. Temple
An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
(colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.
A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
* Marlowe
* Milton
(jewelry) A small round earring.
(construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
(obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
* Spenser
(poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed (also stud poker).
(engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
(engineering) A stud bolt.
An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
To set with ; to furnish with studs.
To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
* 2012 , Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts , page 82:
To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
* 2010 , Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes :
As nouns the difference between stable and stud
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 stud is a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding or stud can be a small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.As verbs the difference between stable and stud
is that stable is to put or keep (horse) in a stable while stud is to set with ; to furnish with studs.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
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
- In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
Synonyms
* (sexually attractive male) he-man, hunk * (male animal) sireDerived terms
* studbook * studding * studly * stud puppyEtymology 2
(etyl) studu .Noun
(en noun)- a collar with studs
- A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs .
- Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
- She's wearing studs in her ears.
- Seest not this same hawthorn stud ?
Derived terms
* studdedVerb
(studd)- [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
- Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.