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Meaning:
Noun:
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- A telegram, notably when send by (submarine) telegraph cable
- (communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables
- finance The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar
- nautical A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship
- nautical A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile
- Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna
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Verb:
- intransitive To communicate by cable
- transitive To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
- transitive To provide with cable(s)
- transitive To send a telegram by cable
- transitive To wrap wires to form a cable
Source: Wiktionary
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