Barn vs. Stable: What's the Difference?
Barn and Stable Definitions
Barn
A large building for sheltering livestock, storing hay or other agricultural products, or housing equipment used for operating a farm.
Stable
Resistant to change of position or condition; not easily moved or disturbed
A house built on stable ground.
A stable platform.
Barn
A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
Stable
Not subject to sudden or extreme change or fluctuation
A stable economy.
A stable currency.
Barn
A particularly large, typically bare building
Lived in a barn of a country house.
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Stable
Maintaining equilibrium; self-restoring
A stable aircraft.
Barn
Abbr. b(Physics) A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.
Stable
Enduring or permanent
A stable peace.
Barn
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
Stable
Consistent or dependable
She has been stable in her support for the project.
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Barn
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.
Stable
Not showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior
He remained stable even after he lost his job.
Barn
An arena.
Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
Stable
(Physics) Having no known mode of decay; indefinitely long-lived. Used of atomic particles.
Barn
(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
Stable
(Chemistry) Not easily decomposed or otherwise modified chemically.
Barn
A child.
Stable
A building for the shelter and feeding of certain domestic animals, especially horses.
Barn
(transitive) To lay up in a barn.
Stable
A group of animals lodged in such a building.
Barn
A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
Stable
All the racehorses belonging to a single owner or racing establishment.
Barn
A child. See Bairn.
Stable
The personnel employed to keep and train such a group of racehorses.
Barn
To lay up in a barn.
Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
Stable
A group, as of athletes or entertainers, under common management
A stable of prizefighters.
Barn
An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Stable
To put or keep in a stable.
Barn
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Stable
To live in a stable.
Stable
A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
Stable
(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
Stable
(Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
Stable
(sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
Stable
(professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
Stable
A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
Stable
A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
Stable
(transitive) to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
Stable
(intransitive) to dwell in a stable.
Stable
To park (a rail vehicle).
Stable
Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
He was in a stable relationship.
A stable government
Stable
(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.
Stable
That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
Stable
Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable.
Stable
Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
And to her husband ever meek and stable.
Stable
Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
Stable
So placed as to resist forces tending to cause motion; of such structure as to resist distortion or molecular or chemical disturbance; - said of any body or substance.
Stable
To fix; to establish.
Stable
To put or keep in a stable.
Stable
To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Stable
A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
Stable
A farm building for housing horses or other livestock
Stable
Shelter in a stable;
Stable horses
Stable
Resistant to change of position or condition;
A stable ladder
A stable peace
A stable relationship
Stable prices
Stable
Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation;
The economy is stable
Stable
Not taking part readily in chemical change
Stable
Maintaining equilibrium
Stable
Showing little if any change;
A static population