sound vs stable

sound

adj
  • Complete, solid, or secure. 

  • Heavy; laid on with force. 

  • Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. 

  • Having the property of soundness. 

  • Healthy. 

  • Quiet and deep. 

  • Good; acceptable; decent. 

noun
  • Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. 

  • A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &. 

  • A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. 

  • A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde. 

  • A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound. 

  • Noise without meaning; empty noise. 

  • A vibration capable of causing such sensations. 

  • A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. 

  • The air bladder of a fish. 

verb
  • To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. 

  • Dive downwards, used of a whale. 

  • To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. 

  • Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. 

  • To convey an impression by one's sound. 

  • To cause to produce a sound. 

  • To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. 

  • To pronounce. 

  • To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. 

  • To produce a sound. 

intj
  • Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. 

adv
  • Soundly. 

stable

adj
  • Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed. 

  • Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version. 

  • That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal. 

verb
  • to put or keep (an animal) in a stable. 

  • to dwell in a stable. 

  • to park (a rail vehicle). 

noun
  • A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession. 

  • A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. 

  • A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses. 

  • All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. 

  • An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together. 

  • A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline. 

  • A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp. 

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