Words that rhyme with metastable

  • able
    adj 1: (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something; "able to swim"; "she was able to program her computer"; "we were at last able to buy a car"; "able to get a grant for the project" [ant: unable] 2: have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable" [syn: able, capable] 3: having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity; "able to learn"; "human beings are able to walk on two feet"; "Superman is able to leap tall buildings" 4: having a strong healthy body; "an able seaman"; "every able- bodied young man served in the army" [syn: able, able- bodied]
  • cable
    n 1: a telegram sent abroad [syn: cable, cablegram, overseas telegram] 2: a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power [syn: cable, line, transmission line] 3: a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire 4: a nautical unit of depth [syn: cable, cable length, cable's length] 5: television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver [syn: cable television, cable] 6: a television system that transmits over cables [syn: cable, cable television, cable system, cable television service] v 1: send cables, wires, or telegrams [syn: cable, telegraph, wire] 2: fasten with a cable; "cable trees"
  • disable
    v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable] 2: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap]
  • disenable
    v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable]
  • enable
    v 1: render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain" [ant: disable, disenable, incapacitate]
  • fable
    n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable] 2: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, parable, allegory, apologue] 3: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events [syn: legend, fable]
  • gable
    n 1: the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof [syn: gable, gable end, gable wall] 2: United States film actor (1901-1960) [syn: Gable, Clark Gable, William Clark Gable]
  • label
    n 1: a brief description given for purposes of identification; "the label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture" 2: trade name of a company that produces musical recordings; "the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent" [syn: label, recording label] 3: a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction 4: an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object v 1: assign a label to; designate with a label; "These students were labelled `learning disabled'" 2: attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles" [syn: tag, label, mark] 3: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: pronounce, label, judge] 4: distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom 5: distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
  • sable
    adj 1: of a dark somewhat brownish black n 1: an artist's brush made of sable hairs [syn: sable, sable brush, sable's hair pencil] 2: the expensive dark brown fur of the marten 3: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black] 4: a scarf (or trimming) made of sable 5: marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur [syn: sable, Martes zibellina]
  • stable
    adj 1: resistant to change of position or condition; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices" [ant: unstable] 2: firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation; "the economy is stable" 3: not taking part readily in chemical change 4: maintaining equilibrium 5: showing little if any change; "a static population" [syn: static, stable, unchanging] n 1: a farm building for housing horses or other livestock [syn: stable, stalls, horse barn] v 1: shelter in a stable; "stable horses"
  • table
    n 1: a set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1" [syn: table, tabular array] 2: a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table" 3: a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant" 4: flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: mesa, table] 5: a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks" 6: food or meals in general; "she sets a fine table"; "room and board" [syn: board, table] v 1: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off] 2: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate]
  • timetable
    n 1: a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place 2: a schedule of times of arrivals and departures
  • turntable
    n 1: a circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played 2: a revolving tray placed on a dining table [syn: turntable, lazy Susan] 3: a rotatable platform with a track; used to turn locomotives and cars
  • unable
    adj 1: (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how; "unable to get to town without a car"; "unable to obtain funds" [ant: able] 2: (usually followed by `to') lacking necessary physical or mental ability; "dyslexics are unable to learn to read adequately"; "the sun was unable to melt enough snow" 3: lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes" [syn: ineffective, ineffectual, unable]
  • unstable
    adj 1: lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy" [ant: stable] 2: highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds" 3: affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce" [syn: precarious, unstable] 4: suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind" [syn: mentally ill, unsound, unstable] 5: disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions" 6: subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup" [syn: fluid, unstable]
  • abel
    n 1: Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829) [syn: Abel, Niels Abel, Niels Henrik Abel] 2: (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain
  • babel
    n 1: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another [syn: Tower of Babel, Babel] 2: a confusion of voices and other sounds
  • abele
    n 1: a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces [syn: white poplar, white aspen, abele, aspen poplar, silver-leaved poplar, Populus alba]
  • mislabel
  • crable
  • frable
  • grable
  • graybeal
  • schaible
  • relabel
  • intercable
  • abell
  • mabel
  • astable
  • bistable
  • retable
  • thermostable
  • beall

See also metastable definition