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cabled

Variant of cable

noun

  1. a thick, heavy rope, now often of wire strands
  2. the strong, heavy chain attached to a ship's anchor: anchor cables were formerly of rope
  3. cable length
  4. 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
  5. ☆ a cablegram
  6. cable TV

transitive verb cabled, cabling

  1. to fasten or furnish with a cable or cables
  2. to transmit by undersea cable
  3. to send a cablegram to

intransitive verb

to send a cablegram

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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