Functioning and Stable

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• A farm building for housing horses or other livestock.
  • synonyms: stalls, horse barn

verb

• Shelter in a stable.
  • usage: "stable horses"

adjective

• Resistant to change of position or condition.
  • usage: "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices"
• Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation.
  • usage: "the economy is stable"
• Not taking part readily in chemical change.
• Maintaining equilibrium.
• Showing little if any change.
  • usage: "a static population"
  • synonyms: static, unchanging

• (a.) 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.
• (v.i.) A house, shed or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; especially, a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
• (v.i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
• (v.i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
• (v.i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
• (v.t.) To fix; to establish.
• (v.t.) To put or keep in a stable.
• (v.i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.