cable
IPA: kˈeɪbʌɫ
noun
- (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna. [Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.]
verb
- (transitive) To provide with cable(s)
- (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
- (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
- (transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable
- (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
- (knitting) To create cable stitches.
Examples of "cable" in Sentences
- For Windows or Mac users, not having the cable is a definite advantage.
- Now that I have the digital converter the cable is always going out. “low signals” FUCK COMCAST.
- Like my friend said, "it's like calling the cable company to tell them your stolen cable is out."
- The Court also relied on what it characterized as cable's "gatekeeper" role, controlling the video programming entering consumers 'homes.
- He shook each arm, and from under each of the fluffy lace cuffs fell out an iron hook fast to a thin cable of steel that evidently ran up her sleeves.
- -- The remaining department of Telegraphy is embodied in the startling departure from ancient ideas of the possible which we know as cable telegraphy, the messages by such means being _cablegrams_.
- Whether their cable from the Cape to Australia shall prove a stumbling-block in the way of the all-British State-owned cable, is a matter that rests entirely with the people of Great Britain and the Colonies.
- Although the boycott began after Beck's July 7 remarks about Obama's alleged racism, it was broadened by democrats. com into an attack on Fox News and what it calls the cable network's campaign of "outright hate-mongering and incitement of violence" following Obama's election.
- This piece of the cable is the largest and heaviest ever made, weighing above twenty tons to the mile, and measuring 2½ in. in diameter, at the shore end, but diminishing gradually, in the last 500 yards outwards, to the ordinary size of the main deep-sea cable, with which it has been joined.