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cable English

Meaning cable meaning

What does cable mean?
Definitions in simple English

cable Noun

— A cable is a strong wire or rope that is often made out of metal. A strong cable held the two trees together. — A cable can also be a cord that allows information to pass through. My internet wasn't working because a cable was unplugged. — Sometimes cable is short for cable television. Do you have cable or satellite television?

cable Verb

— To cable something, you use strong wires to attach two things together. Cable the boats together so that they don't float away.

cable

— noun a telegram sent abroad — noun a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power — noun a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire — verb (= wire) send cables, wires, or telegrams — verb fasten with a cable cable trees — noun a television system that transmits over cables — noun a nautical unit of depth — noun television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

Synonyms cable synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cable?

cable English » English

wire rope hawser telegraph cord telegram cablegram cable television line chain string cable length twine strand overseas telegram mooring cable cable’s length cable television service cable system wire rope transmission line thick rope store steel wire rope lodge hand in file electric wire electric cable dispatch deposit whip vine tighten thread tether telegraphy take down submarine cable stranded wire steel wires steel stranded wire steel strand rope steel strand steel rope steel cable spanking send a telegrame send a telegram send a cable

Topics cable topics

What do people use cable to talk about?
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange Tie

Rope, string

Conjugation cable conjugation

How do you conjugate cable?

cable · verb

Examples cable examples

How do I use cable in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.
A submarine cable was laid between the two countries.
The boat was tied to the shore by a cable.
Some students take the cable car.
I'd like to ride the cable car, but I'm afraid of heights.
We went up the mountain by cable car.
I need a new USB cable.
Tom doesn't have cable TV.
The whole town has cable TV.
This TV doesn't come with an HDMI cable.
Disconnect the power cable from the modem, wait for approximately one minute, then reconnect the cable.
They're working hard to get the cable laid in time.
Does Tom have cable?
Bending the cable too tightly can also adversely affect signal quality.
It's a. err. a whatcha-ma-call-it. Oh, that's right! It's called a fiber-optic cable.
The squirrel chewed through the power cable.

Movie subtitles

The ignition cable probably isn't going to fix itself!
A contract, confirmed by cable.
We will cable your father in London.
Uh,Cable Company.
I Didn't Let Anyone In From A Cable Company.
The Cable Company.
From The Cable Company.
I sent her a cable to London and told her to meet me here.
I cable for Indians and I want Indians!
I cable for Wabash Indians and what do I get?
I have your cable accepting it.
Cable Lord Gainsford at Shanghai.
First, we want to cable the Foreign Office.
Cable from Gainsford.
The Sandbar, a cable's length from the wharf, has vanished now - wiped out by commerce and reform.
Cable for you, sir.
What's the cable, darling?
Starboard watch, shorten and cable!
But the lad slipped his cable.
Okay, but rush it. Send another SOS to the syndicated press. and cable London and Berlin.
That's the fellow! Tell the cable office we found him.
My plane. Father, did you cable about my plane?
First, we want to cable the Foreign Office. England's waiting for news of my brother.
Cable from Gainsford. - Read it!
Where did you cable him?
This is a cable from Mark.
I shall cable my sister tomorrow.
I am a signaller and I am checking the cable before the onset.
We repaired the cable already 10 times, but still no connection.
Send another SOS to the syndicated press. and cable London and Berlin.
Tell the cable office we found him.
Father, did you cable about my plane?
Not even a cable.
That cable.
I shall cable that you are coming.
But a cable came this morning announcing that my daughter is engaged to be married.
Mr. Leland, I got a cable from Mr. Kane!
I got a cable from Mr. Kane. - What? - From Paris, France.
Hmm. - Where can I send a cable?
The boat stopped at Trabzon, I sent you the cable.

News and current affairs

Advances in cable technology would allow Ireland to link to France, providing an alternative route to European markets if the UK elects to remain outside the network.
The cable-stayed bridge is a form that is currently being pushed to limits and beyond those originally imagined to apply to it.
Widespread successes with cable-stayed structures have made the type almost commonplace.
Whether there will be a major cable-stayed bridge failure soon - or around the year 2030 - will most likely depend not so much on computer analyses as on how well engineers know their history and are determined not to repeat it.
Similarly, we do not know when world trade in information services like form processing, accounting, and customer service will truly boom as a result of the Internet and the fiber-optic cable.
That is what people used to say years ago about cable TV.
After the first trans-Atlantic cable in 1868, Europe and America could communicate in a minute.
Similarly, a cable concerning a Mexican-sponsored attempt earlier this year to create something like the Organization of American States, but without the US and Canada, is chockfull of largely accurate but excessive rhetoric blasting Mexican diplomacy.
All Indian news channels have been dropped from cable networks.
Why are cable TV personalities so eager to overstate how quickly central banks change their view of the likely future?
Why do participants in financial markets trade on the advice of cable TV personalities when a small amount of number-crunching reveals that the benefits must be lower than the transactions costs incurred by over-frequent trading?
Thanks to new ownership rules, cable television, product endorsements, and other business-related factors, there are probably more supporters of Manchester United in China than there are in the United Kingdom, let alone in the city of Manchester.
Whether on state television or in government-controlled newspapers - at the time, there was no free press, Internet, or cable news - citizens were reassured that Egypt had regained control of its destiny.
The country's major cable and satellite companies refuse to carry it - leaving it with US viewers only in Washington, DC and parts of Ohio and Vermont - despite huge public demand.
Maybe Americans will rise up and threaten to boycott their cable and satellite providers unless we get our Al Jazeera - and other carriers of international news.
Constantly pitting one side against the other may make for entertaining roundtables on cable television and energizing political rallies.
Satellite links have vastly improved Internet access, and a new undersea cable that runs along the coast of Africa (SAT-3) promises to improve and reduce the cost of all types of communications.
Cable television operators see their premises ransacked.
Whereas in 1978 there were only 186 newspapers and a handful of magazines and broadcast outlets, today China has roughly 2,200 newspapers, 9,000 magazines, 1,000 radio stations, and 420 TV stations, plus a growing proliferation of cable TV outlets.
Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee both failed to win the Republican nomination, but secured seats on cable talk shows.
International criticism is sure to follow if something, anything, goes wrong during the Games, especially if it involves the suppression of dissent and is vectored around the world via 24-hour cable television and the Internet.

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