noun. undefined

noun. A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope.

noun. Something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.

noun. undefined

noun. A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.

noun. A sheathed bundle of optical fibers.

noun. undefined

noun. A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship.

noun. A cable length.

noun. undefined

noun. Cable television.

noun. A similar service providing Internet access.

noun. A cablegram.

adjective. Of or relating to a subscription television or Internet service that uses cables to carry signals between local distribution antennas and the subscriber's location.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To send a cablegram to.

intransitive verb. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.

intransitive verb. To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.

intransitive verb. To send a cablegram.

To make into a cable; specifically, to twist two threads together and then to twist, three of these doubled threads into one, as in the manufacture of sewing-thread.

noun. A long, narrow strip of land.

noun. A cablegram; a cable message: as, a cable announcing their departure has just been received.

noun. An abbreviation of cable-car: as, to take the cable up-town.

To fasten with a cable.

In architecture, to fill (the flutes of columns) with cables or cylindrical pieces.

[Cf. equiv. wire, verb] To transmit by a telegraph-cable.

To send a message by a telegraph-cable.

noun. A rope.

noun. Specifically A large, strong rope or chain, such as is used to hold a vessel at anchor.

noun. See submarine cable, below.

noun. The traction-rope of a cable-railroad.

noun. In architecture: A molding of the torus kind, with its surface cut in imitation of the twisting of a rope.

noun. A cylindrical molding inserted in the flute of a column and partly filling it.

noun. A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

noun. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance.

noun. A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.

noun. the cable belonging to the bower anchor.

noun. a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor.

noun. the length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or more; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile).

noun. A coil of a cable.

noun. the cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

noun. a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas.

noun. See Telegraph.

noun. to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole.

noun. undefined

noun. to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et.

noun. to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.

verb. To telegraph by a submarine cable.

transitive verb. To fasten with a cable.

transitive verb. To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

"Whether their cable from the Cape to Australia shall prove a stumbling-block in the way of the all-British State-owned cable, is a matter that rests entirely with the people of Great Britain and the Colonies."