Definitions for cables

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cables ca·ble

Spelling: [key-buh l]

IPA: /ˈkeɪ bəl/

Cables is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in cables (abcels).

Definitions for cables

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 cables

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 cables

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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