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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.
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a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism.
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EXPANDElectricity. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another.
verb (used with object)
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to send (a message) by cable.
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to send a cablegram to.
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to fasten with a cable.
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to furnish with a cable.
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to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network: The state will be completely cabled in a few years.
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Cabled
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
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
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
Related forms
ca·ble·like, adjective
re·ca·ble, verb, -bled, -bling.
un·ca·bled, adjective
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Word Origin & History
cable
c.1200, from O.N.Fr., from M.L. capulum "lasso, rope, halter for cattle," from L. capere "to take, seize" (see capable). Technically, in nautical use, a rope 10 or more inches around (smaller ones being hawsers); in non-nautical use, a rope of wire (not hemp or fiber). Given
EXPANDa new range of senses in 19c.: Meaning "message received by telegraphic cable" is from 1883 (short for cable message). As a verb, "to tie up with cables" is from c.1500; "to transmit by cable" is 1871, Amer.Eng. Cable car is from 1887. Cable television first attested 1963; shortened form cable is from 1972.
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