stable vs yo-yo

stable

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. 

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

  • to dwell in a stable. 

  • to park (a rail vehicle). 

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. 

yo-yo

noun
  • A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist. 

  • A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch. 

  • Someone who vacillates. 

  • A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot. 

  • A volatile market that moves up and down. 

  • A foolish, annoying or incompetent person. 

verb
  • To vacillate; to move up and down. 

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