- a heavy, strong rope.
- a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges.
- a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism.
- Nautical.
- a thick hawser made of rope, strands of metal wire, or chain.
- cable's length.
- an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another.
- cablegram.
- cable television.
- cable-stitch.
- one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster.
- to send (a message) by cable.
- to send a cablegram to.
- to fasten with a cable.
- to furnish with a cable.
- 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.
- to send a message by cable.
- to cable-stitch.
- U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- a strong thick rope, usually of twisted hemp or steel wire
- an anchor chain or rope
- a unit of distance in navigation, equal to one tenth of a sea mile (about 600 feet)
- a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- a wire or bundle of wires that conducts electricity
- a telegram sent abroad by submarine cable, radio, communications satellite, or by telephone line
- See cable stitch
- short for cable television
- to send (a message) to (someone) by cable
- to fasten or provide with a cable or cables
- to supply (a place) with or link (a place) to cable television
