Cable
Pronunciation
- IPA: /keɪbl/
- Rhymes: -eɪbəl
Origin
Recorded since c.1205, from Old Northern French, from Medieval Latin capulum ("lasso, rope, halter"), from Latin capiÅ ("to take, seize").
Full definition of cable
Noun
cable
(plural cables)- (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- (nautical) A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship.
- (communications) 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.
- 2014-03-15, Turn it off, If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, …. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
- Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
Synonyms
- wire rope
- cord
- (telegram) cablegram
- (nautical unit) cable length
Antonyms
- (nautical rope) hawser (thinner)