What is the meaning of CABLE. Phrases containing CABLE
See meanings and uses of CABLE!Slangs & AI meanings
A nautical way to describe someone who passes away suddenly. Refers to the method of leaving an anchorage in an emergency, by departing with the anchor and the cable left on the sea floor.
Vrb phrs. To defecate. E.g."Can I get Tim to give you a call back? He's just in the toilet, laying some cable."
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n.
A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
n.
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.
v. t.
To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
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Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
v. t.
To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
v. t. & i.
To telegraph by a submarine cable
n.
To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
v. i.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
v. t.
To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.
n.
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
v. t.
To fasten with a cable.
n.
A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
prep.
On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
n.
The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
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of Cable
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Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
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Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
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Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
n.
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.
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