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
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
Kim Kardashian
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Horace Mann
When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show.
George Lopez
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader
We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
Rupert Murdoch
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
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
Christine Lahti
I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features.
Holly Hunter
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
John Frankenheimer
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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