g. w. cable
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| —n | |
| 1. | a strong thick rope, usually of twisted hemp or steel wire |
| 2. | nautical an anchor chain or rope |
| 3. | a. a unit of distance in navigation, equal to one tenth of a sea mile (about 600 feet) |
| b. cable length, Also called: cable's length a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet) | |
| 4. | See also coaxial cable a wire or bundle of wires that conducts electricity: a submarine cable |
| 5. | overseas telegram, international telegram, Also called: cablegram a telegram sent abroad by submarine cable, radio, communications satellite, or by telephone line |
| 6. | See cable stitch |
| 7. | short for cable television |
| —vb | |
| 8. | to send (a message) to (someone) by cable |
| 9. | (tr) to fasten or provide with a cable or cables |
| 10. | (tr) to supply (a place) with or link (a place) to cable television |
| [C13: from Old Norman French, from Late Latin capulum halter] | |
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G. w. cable
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| 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. |
Etymonline
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
a 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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