Definitions for Cable

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Cable ca·ble

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IPA: /ˈkeɪ bəl/

Cable is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Cable (abcel).

Definitions for Cable

noun

1. a heavy, strong rope.
2. a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges.
3. a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism.
4. Nautical. a thick hawser made of rope, strands of metal wire, or chain. cable's length.
5. Electricity. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another.
6. cablegram.
7. cable television.
8. cable-stitch.
9. Architecture. one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster.
10. George Washington, 1844–1925, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

verb (used with object)

1. to send (a message) by cable.
2. to send a cablegram to.
3. to fasten with a cable.
4. to furnish with a cable.
5. to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network:

verb (used without object)

1. to send a message by cable.
2. to cable-stitch.

Origin of Cable

1175-1225; Middle English, probably Old North French *cable Late Latin capulum lasso; compare Latin capulāre to rope, halter (cattle), akin to capere to take

Examples for Cable

Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.

HBOGo has become such a massive success for cable network HBO that they will start to offer the service as a stand-alone option.

The action was fought nearly at the distance of a cable's length from the enemy.

You would not know it by listening to cable news pundits, and no politician will ever admit it.

The following letter, received by the French cable, explains itself.

"The cable would have handled that end of it, I guess," she said, succinctly.

Well, one expert I talked to said that physically it involves little more than a $20 cable.

It was the only cable we used for the first twenty-four hours.

Then again, cable news ratings are down more or less across the board, and Americans find much of the media untrustworthy.

We brought the ship up with this cable, but not until she got it nearly to the better end.