Barn vs. Stable
Difference Between Barn and Stable
Barnnoun
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
Stablenoun
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.Barnnoun
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
Stablenoun
(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
Barnnoun
An arena.
Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.Stablenoun
(Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
Barnnoun
A child.
Stablenoun
An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
Barnverb
(transitive) To lay up in a barn.
Stableverb
(transitive) to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
Barnnoun
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Stableverb
(intransitive) to dwell in a stable.
Barnnoun
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Stableverb
to park (a rail vehicle)
Stableadjective
Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
He was in a stable relationship.a stable governmentStableadjective
(computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.Stableadjective
That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
Stablenoun
a farm building for housing horses or other livestock
Stableverb
shelter in a stable;
stable horsesStableadjective
resistant to change of position or condition;
a stable laddera stable peacea stable relationshipstable pricesStableadjective
firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation;
the economy is stableStableadjective
not taking part readily in chemical change
Stableadjective
maintaining equilibrium
Stableadjective
showing little if any change;
a static population
