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able
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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]
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cable
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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"
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disable
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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]
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disenable
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v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this
command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable,
incapacitate] [ant: enable]
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enable
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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]
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fable
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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]
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gable
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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]
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label
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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
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sable
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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]
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stable
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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"
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table
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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]
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timetable
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n 1: a schedule listing events and the times at which they will
take place
2: a schedule of times of arrivals and departures
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unable
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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]
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unstable
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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]
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abel
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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
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babel
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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
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metastable
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adj 1: (of physical systems) continuing in its present state of
equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a
more stable state of equilibrium
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crable
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frable
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grable
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graybeal
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schaible
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relabel
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intercable
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abell
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chaebol
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mabel
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zabel
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astable
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bistable
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retable
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thermostable
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beall
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