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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.

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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

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

(kāˈbəl)

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.

verb ca·bled, ca·bling, ca·bles

verb, transitive

a. To send a cablegram to.
b. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.

verb, intransitive

To send a cablegram.

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caˈbler noun

(kāˈbəl), George Washington 1844-1925.

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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