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cables
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Definitions ofcables
1noun
- (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
- (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
Example: "I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out."
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
1verb
- To provide with cable(s)
- To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
- To wrap wires to form a cable
- To send a telegram by cable
- To communicate by cable
- To ornament with cabling.
- To create cable stitches.
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