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Synonyms for cable
ˈkeɪ bəlca·ble

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. cablenoun

    Synonyms:
    cord, wire rope, cablegram, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  2. cablenoun

    To provide with cable(s)

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  3. cablenoun

    To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

    Synonyms:
    cable length, cablegram, cord, wire rope

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  4. cablenoun

    To wrap wires to form a cable

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  5. cablenoun

    A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship

    Synonyms:
    cord, cable length, cablegram, wire rope

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  6. cablenoun

    (communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables

    I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cord, cablegram, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  7. cablenoun

    Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna

    Synonyms:
    cable length, cord, wire rope, cablegram

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  8. cablenoun

    A telegram, notably when send by (submarine) telegraph cable

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  9. cablenoun

    A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

    Antonyms:
    hawser

  10. cablenoun

    The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar

    Synonyms:
    cord, cablegram, wire rope, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. cable, cablegram, overseas telegramnoun

    a telegram sent abroad

    Synonyms:
    line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

  2. cable, line, transmission linenoun

    a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

    Synonyms:
    cable system, course, billet, short letter, assembly line, crease, overseas telegram, argumentation, railway line, argument, pedigree, product line, cable television, parentage, melodic line, rail line, business line, contrast, communication channel, job, phone line, line of products, occupation, credit line, blood line, cablegram, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, cable length, melodic phrase, stemma, channel, bank line, agate line, line of work, dividing line, stock, business, line of credit, furrow, lineage, wrinkle, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, note, origin, personal credit line, tune, line, line of descent, cable television service, melody, cable's length, telephone circuit, line of business, air, bloodline, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, crinkle, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, blood, logical argument, demarcation

  3. cablenoun

    a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire

    Synonyms:
    line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

  4. cable, cable length, cable's lengthnoun

    a nautical unit of depth

    Synonyms:
    line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

  5. cable television, cablenoun

    television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

    Synonyms:
    line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable system, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, transmission line

  6. cable, cable television, cable system, cable television serviceverb

    a television system that transmits over cables

    Synonyms:
    line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

  7. cable, telegraph, wireverb

    send cables, wires, or telegrams

    Synonyms:
    wire, telegraph, electrify

  8. cableverb

    fasten with a cable

    "cable trees"

    Synonyms:
    wire, telegraph

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cable

    Synonyms:
    See Coaxial cable

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How to use cable in a sentence?

  1. Michael Donovan:

    That cable actually dropped down within the system, and it was not safe to operate.

  2. Daily Caller:

    The Lincoln Project was able to avoid commenting on the Weaver allegations partly due to the fact that its co-founders were not asked about them during their many cable news appearances.

  3. Constantine Kanyasu:

    This won't be the first time in the world, cable cars are there in Sweden, Italy, the Himalayas.

  4. Horace Mann:

    Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  5. Bari Weiss:

    But I'm sorry, if you're watching cable news all day, right ? Getty Images's what you're gon na think, there is misinformation and not just on podcasts and the internet. It's also on cable news. I think the biggest thing to me about the Democrats is … the Democrats is supposed to be the party of the little guy … You know what the Democrats are now comfortable with, or seemingly comfortable with ? A two-tiered system in which the haves get to go into a restaurant, laugh with their friends for hours and the people serving them are masked and wearing gloves. Where they get to walk, as AOC did, at the Met Gala while in the background the staff looked like they were in' The Handmaid's Tale.' I mean, this is, this is a look that is unbelievably detrimental to them.


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