English Explanatory Dictionary

cable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A long object used to make a physical connection.
  2. A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
  3. An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
  4. An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
  5. A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
  6. A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
  7. Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
  8. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
  9. A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
  10. 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
  11. The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
  12. A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
verb
  1. To provide (something) with cable(s).
  2. To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
  3. To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
  4. To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
  5. To communicate by cable.
  6. To ornament (something) with cabling.
  7. To create cable stitches.
name
  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A census-designated place in Richland Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota.
  5. An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Champaign County, Ohio.
  6. A town and census-designated place therein, in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.

Pronunciation

/ˈkeɪ.bəl/ en-us-cable.ogg

Word forms

cable cables cabling cabled

Etymology

Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.

Synonyms

wire rope cord string cablegram cable length

Related words

cablet

Derived words

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Translations

Albanian: kabllo Arabic: كَابْل Armenian: մալուխ Armenian: կաբել Armenian: կաբելային Azerbaijani: kabel Belarusian: ка́бель Bulgarian: ка́бел Burmese: သံကြိုး Catalan: cable Chinese Mandarin: 電纜 /电缆 Chinese Mandarin: 電線 /电线 Czech: kabel Danish: kabel Dutch: (electrische) kabel Dutch: kabel Dutch: kabelnetwerk Esperanto: kablo Estonian: kaabel Finnish: kaapeli Finnish: johto Finnish: kaapeliverkko French: câble French: fil électrique Galician: cable Georgian: კაბელი Georgian: სადენი German: Kabel German: Leitung Greek: καλώδιο Hebrew: כֶּבֶל Hebrew: כְּבָלִים Hindi: केबल Italian: cavo Italian: cavo elettrico Japanese: ケーブル Japanese: 電線 Japanese: 電纜 Kazakh: кабель Kazakh: кәбіл Kazakh: шоғырсым Khmer: ខ្សែលួសធំ Khmer: ពួរ Khmer: ខ្សែ Korean: 케이블 Korean: 까벨 Korean: 전선 Korean: 전람 Kyrgyz: кабель Lao: ລວດ Lao: ສາຍໄຟ Latvian: kabelis Lithuanian: kabelis Macedonian: кабел Malay: kabel Māori: taura hiko Mongolian: утас Norwegian Bokmål: kabel Norwegian Bokmål: ledning Norwegian Nynorsk: kabel Norwegian Nynorsk: leidning Persian: کابل Persian: کیبل Polish: kabel Polish: przewód Portuguese: cabo Portuguese: fio Portuguese: linha
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