cable
nounEtymology
Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
Definitions
A long object used to make a physical connection.
A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or…
A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
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A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to…
A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
To provide (something) with cable(s).
To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.
- On 8th November Anthony cabled them, ‘Your great-grandson Randal Lewis Casson arrived to-day. Both well,’ and we sent, ‘Congratulations on becoming great-grandparents.’
To communicate by cable.
To ornament (something) with cabling.
To create cable stitches.
- You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
A place in the United States
A place in the United States:
The neighborhood
- neighborcablet
Derived
anticable, array cable, basic cable, belted cable, booster cable, Bowden cable, cable-actuated, cable box, cable buoy, cablecar, cable-car, cable car, cablecast, cable core, cable drum, cable ferry, cablegami, Cablegate, cable gland, cablegram, cable guy, cable harness, cable internet, cable jack, cable joint, cable jointing, cable knit, cable-knit, cable knitting, cable-lacing, cable-laid, cable-laid rope, cableless, cablelike, cable man, cableman, cable modem, cable moulding, cable needle, cable puller · +55 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at cable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA