Stable vs. Livery — What's the Difference?

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.

A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in the livery.

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

A distinctive uniform worn by the male servants of a household.

A building set apart and adapted for keeping horses

The distinctive dress worn by the members of a particular group; uniform

Put or keep (a horse) in a stable

The costume or insignia worn by the retainers of a feudal lord.

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

The boarding and care of horses for a fee.

Not subject to sudden or extreme change or fluctuation

The hiring out of horses and carriages.

Maintaining equilibrium; self-restoring

A livery stable.

Enduring or permanent

A business that offers vehicles, such as automobiles or boats, for hire.

Consistent or dependable

(Law) Official delivery of property, especially land, to a new owner.

Not showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior

Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.

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

The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.

(Chemistry) Not easily decomposed or otherwise modified chemically.

The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.

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

(US) A taxicab or limousine.

A group of animals lodged in such a building.

(legal) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.

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

(legal) The writ by which property is obtained.

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

(historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.

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

(historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.

To put or keep in a stable.

An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.

To live in a stable.

Release from wardship; deliverance.

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

A low grade of wool.

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

Outward markings, fittings or appearance

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

(archaic) To clothe.

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

Like liver.

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

Queasy, liverish.

A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

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

Release from wardship; deliverance.

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

That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.

(intransitive) to dwell in a stable.

Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.

To park (a rail vehicle).

A low grade of wool.

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

An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.

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

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.

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

The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept; also, the place where horses are so kept, also called a livery stable.

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

To clothe in, or as in, livery.

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

Uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs

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

The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

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.

The care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay

To fix; to establish.

Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

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;