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The definition of cable means a rope-like bunch of wires used to connect two things.
(noun)- The cord that connects your phone to the wall socket is an example of a cable.
- The connection between your computer and your internet service provider is an example of a cable.
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See cable in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a thick, heavy rope, now often of wire strands
- the strong, heavy chain attached to a ship's anchor: anchor cables were formerly of rope
- cable length
- a bundle of insulated wires through which an electric current can be passed: telegraph or telephone cables are often laid under the ground or on the ocean floor
- ☆ a cablegram
- cable TV
Origin: ME & OFr < LL capulum, a cable, rope < L capere, to take hold: see have
transitive verb cabled, cabling
- to fasten or furnish with a cable or cables
- to transmit by undersea cable
- to send a cablegram to
intransitive verb
to send a cablegram
Cable,
George Washington 1844-1925; U.S. novelist
See cable in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope.b. Something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.
- Electricity A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.
- Nautical a. A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship.b. A cable length.
- A cablegram.
- Cable television.
- a. To send a cablegram to.b. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
- To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.
To send a cablegram.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old North French
Origin: , from Late Latin capulum, lasso
Origin: , from Latin capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- caˈbler noun
American writer whose works, including short stories and the novel The Grandissimes (1880), concern social order and racial discord in the South.
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