Synonyms:
cable, cablegram, overseas_telegram
Meaning: a telegram sent abroad
Synonyms:
cable, line, transmission_line
Meaning: a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
Synonyms:
cable
Meaning: a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
cable, telegraph, wire
Meaning: send cables, wires, or telegrams
Usage examples
Suggest you cable back the twenty thousand pounds lying our credit New York.
The floating cable has snapped and the creature has gone off, borne on its parachute.
So Miss Dorcas must pack, and turn out whenever I die, that is, if I slip my cable first.
Two high iron towers supporting the cable of a current ferry add dignity to the twin settlements.
He left the cable carefully open upon the dressing-table, and, picking up the small leather case, left the room.
Cable, yes--frankly, when she came into the dining-room the other night I thought it was a feather-boa she had on."
We hadn't gone two cable lengths when a hundred savages, howling and gesticulating, entered the water up to their waists.
From the bottom of the sea I saw them take up an anchor of six hundredweight, tying a cable to it with great dexterity, and pulling it from a rock.
The French Cable Company, which was at work trying to repair the cables broken by the eruption, found the bottom of the Caribbean Sea so changed as to render the old charts useless.
"I suspect that of being a principle you'd like me to bear in mind at the polar mines, when I see, let's say, some laborer being beaten by a couple of overseers with three foot lengths of three-quarter-inch steel cable."