Definition of Cable

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Definition of Cable

Cable

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.

A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

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.

To fasten with a cable.

To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

To telegraph by a submarine cable

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Cable Quotations

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
Tom Brokaw

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.
Bob Saget

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
Chuck Klosterman

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
Christine Lahti

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
Jon Postel

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
Bob Schieffer

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
Phyllis Schlafly

Cable Translations

cable in Dutch is kabel, tros
cable in German is Kabel
cable in Italian is cavo
cable in Norwegian is kabel
cable in Portuguese is cabo
cable in Spanish is telegrafiar, cable
cable in Swedish is kabel

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