The difference between Fixed and Stable

When used as adjectives, fixed means not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same, whereas stable means relatively unchanging, permanent.

Stable is also noun with the meaning: a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

Stable is also verb with the meaning: to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fixed and Stable

  1. Fixed as a verb:

  1. Fixed as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "fixed assets"

    "I work fixed hours for a fixed salary."

    "Every religion has its own fixed ideas."

    "He looked at me with a fixed glare."

  2. Fixed as an adjective:

    Stationary.

  3. Fixed as an adjective:

    Attached; affixed.

  4. Fixed as an adjective:

    Chemically stable.

  5. Fixed as an adjective:

    Supplied with what one needs.

    Examples:

    "She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."

  6. Fixed as an adjective (legal):

    Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

    Examples:

    "In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972."

  7. Fixed as an adjective (dialectal, informal):

    Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

    Examples:

    "a fixed tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been fixed'"

  8. Fixed as an adjective:

    Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

  9. Fixed as an adjective (of a [[problem]]):

    Resolved; corrected.

  10. Fixed as an adjective:

    Repaired

  1. Stable as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables."

  2. Stable as a noun (metonymy):

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

  3. Stable as a noun (Scotland):

    A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

  4. Stable as a noun:

    An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

  1. Stable as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Stable as a verb (intransitive):

    to dwell in a stable.

  3. Stable as a verb (rail transport, transitive):

    to park (a rail vehicle)

  1. Stable as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "He was in a stable relationship."

    "a stable government"

  2. Stable as an adjective (computing):

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

    Examples:

    "You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs. "

  3. Stable as an adjective (computer science, of a sorting algorithm):

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

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