Fixed vs. Stable — What's the Difference?

Firmly in position; stationary

A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building that is divided into separate stalls for individual animals and livestock.

Determined; established; set

(of an object or structure) not likely to give way or overturn; firmly fixed

Not subject to change or variation; unchanging

A building set apart and adapted for keeping horses

Not readily evaporating; nonvolatile.

Put or keep (a horse) in a stable

Being in a stable, combined form

Resistant to change of position or condition; not easily moved or disturbed

Firmly, often dogmatically held

Not subject to sudden or extreme change or fluctuation

Persistently occurring in the mind; obsessive

Maintaining equilibrium; self-restoring

Supplied, especially with funds. Often used in combination

Enduring or permanent

Illegally prearranged as to outcome

Consistent or dependable

Simple past tense and past participle of fix

Not showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior

Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

(Physics) Having no known mode of decay; indefinitely long-lived. Used of atomic particles.

Stationary.

(Chemistry) Not easily decomposed or otherwise modified chemically.

Attached; affixed.

A building for the shelter and feeding of certain domestic animals, especially horses.

Chemically stable.

A group of animals lodged in such a building.

Supplied with what one needs.

All the racehorses belonging to a single owner or racing establishment.

(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

The personnel employed to keep and train such a group of racehorses.

Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

A group, as of athletes or entertainers, under common management

Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

To put or keep in a stable.

(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

To live in a stable.

Repaired

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

Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

Stable; non-volatile.

(Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

(sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

Fixed and unmoving;

(professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.

Securely placed or fastened or set;

A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

Intent and directed steadily;

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

Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.

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

Mended or put in working order;

(intransitive) to dwell in a stable.

Not increasing as the amount taxed increases

To park (a rail vehicle).

Specified in advance;

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

Directed with intense concentration;

(computing) 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.

Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.

Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.

Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.

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.

To fix; to establish.

To put or keep in a stable.

To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.

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.

A farm building for housing horses or other livestock

Shelter in a stable;

Resistant to change of position or condition;

Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation;

Not taking part readily in chemical change

Maintaining equilibrium

Showing little if any change;