1. A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope.
2. something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.
3. electricity A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.
4. nautical A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship.
5. nautical A cable length.
6. A cablegram.
7. cable television.
8. to send a cablegram to.
9. to transmit (a message) by telegraph.
10. to supply or fasten with a cable or cables.
11. to send a cablegram.

1. A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
2. an assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes
3. an assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
4. A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship
5. A system for receiving television or internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables
6. short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna
7. A telegram, notably when send by (submarine) telegraph cable
8. A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile
9. the currency pair british pound against united states dollar
10. to provide with cable(s)
11. to fasten (as if) with cable(s)
12. to wrap wires to form a cable
13. to send a telegram by cable
14. to communicate by cable

1. 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.
2. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance.
3. 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.
4. to telegraph by a submarine cable.
5. to fasten with a cable.
6. to ornament with cabling. see cabling.

1. to fasten with a cable.
2. in architecture, to fill (the flutes of columns) with cables or cylindrical pieces.
3. [cf. equiv. wire, verb] to transmit by a telegraph-cable.
4. to send a message by a telegraph-cable.
5. to make into a cable; specifically, to twist two threads together and then to twist, three of these doubled threads into one, as in the manufacture of sewing-thread.
6. A rope.
7. specifically A large, strong rope or chain, such as is used to hold a vessel at anchor.
8. see submarine cable, below.
9. the traction-rope of a cable-railroad.
10. in architecture: A molding of the torus kind, with its surface cut in imitation of the twisting of a rope.
11. A cylindrical molding inserted in the flute of a column and partly filling it.
12. A long, narrow strip of land.
13. A cablegram; a cable message: as, a cable announcing their departure has just been received.
14. an abbreviation of cable-car: as, to take the cable up-town.

1. a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
2. a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
3. fasten with a cable
4. a nautical unit of depth
5. a telegram sent abroad
6. a television system that transmits over cables
7. television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
8. send cables, wires, or telegrams