stable vs tandem

stable

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • 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). 

tandem

noun
  • A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer. 

  • A method of language learning based on mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the other person wants to learn. 

  • A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration. 

  • A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer. 

adj
  • Together; working as one. 

adv
  • One behind the other. 

How often have the words stable and tandem occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )