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Cable   /kˈeɪbəl/   Listen
Cable

noun
1.
A telegram sent abroad.  Synonyms: cablegram, overseas telegram.
2.
A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power.  Synonyms: line, transmission line.
3.
A very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire.
4.
A nautical unit of depth.  Synonyms: cable's length, cable length.
5.
Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver.  Synonym: cable television.
6.
A television system that transmits over cables.  Synonyms: cable system, cable television, cable television service.
verb
(past & past part. cabled; pres. part. cabling)
1.
Send cables, wires, or telegrams.  Synonyms: telegraph, wire.
2.
Fasten with a cable.



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"Cable" Quotes from Famous Books



... tourists fought shy of it, preferring the music and dancing and card-playing of the famous hostelries along the water-front. Of course, everybody came up for the view, just as everybody went up the Corner Grat (by cable) at Zermatt to see the Matterhorn. But for all its apparent dulness, there, was always an English duchess, a Russian princess, or a lady from the Faubourg St.-Germain somewhere about, resting after a strenuous winter along the Riviera. ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... Francisco. The log cabins he had known were replaced by towering buildings. The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in ...
— White Fang • Jack London
... replied and vanished into the house. She was back in a moment holding in her hand another locket. He took it from her and moved closer under the lantern to look at it. It hung from a thick twisted cable of gold, and set round with pearls it was bigger and heavier than the dainty case O Hara San had hidden against her heart. For a moment he hesitated, overcoming an inexplicable reluctance to open it—then he ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... indirectly. For no small part of the actual labor of building was done for love only; and the mighty beams for the roof had been hauled to Kyoto from far-away mountain-slopes, with cables made of the hair of Buddhist wives and daughters. One such cable, preserved in the temple, is more than three hundred and sixty feet long, and ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... surface, gliding down on them silently, leaving a wedge of long, sluggish ripples behind. When thirty feet away the glistening head dipped under, and a great half-circle of leg-thick body arched out. It was like an oily stream of curved cable; then it ended in a pointed tail—and the creature ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various


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