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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

... had been hooked on, as the engineers phrased it, in order to furnish electric light to the camp itself, for the telephone service of the valley and for the minor machinery which was operated by this or that machine shop along the side of the mountain. A cable from the power house ran up to another house known as the lighting plant, which stood in the angle between the street level and the dam itself. Here was installed a giant searchlight which could be played at will along the face of the ...

— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough

... I at home," exclaimed Karlsefin, with heightened colour and sparkling eyes, as he stood at the helm, and glanced from the bulging sail to the heaving swell, where Thorward's Dragon was bending over to the breeze about a cable's length to leeward,—"Now am I at home ...

— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne

... do but modestly get up and express a fervint hope that the Atlantic Cable would bind the two countries still more closely together? The lan'lord said my speech was full of orig'nality, but his idee was the old stage coach was more safer, and he tho't peple would indors that opinyin in ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 5 • Charles Farrar Browne

... upon the line, stopping at a certain angle, which renders the withdrawal of the weapon impossible. Besides this, an explosive shell is so attached that it quickly bursts within the monster, producing instant death. A cable is then fastened to the head, and the whale is towed into harbor to be cut up, and the blubber tried out ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... bunker-hatch—'tis insanitary.' Honna this, that, and the other all in one breath. And we'd had the blessed stern torn out of her, runnin' foul o' the breakwater, to say nothin' of pickin' up the telegraph cable ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

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