What are some opposite words for cable?

Antonyms for cable
ˈkeɪ bəlca·ble

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. cablenoun

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    cord, wire rope, cablegram, cable length

  2. cablenoun

    To provide with cable(s)

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

  3. cablenoun

    To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    cable length, cablegram, cord, wire rope

  4. cablenoun

    To wrap wires to form a cable

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

  5. cablenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    cord, cable length, cablegram, wire rope

  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.

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cord, cablegram, cable length

  7. cablenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    cable length, cord, wire rope, cablegram

  8. cablenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

  9. cablenoun

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

    Antonyms:
    hawser

    Synonyms:
    wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

  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

How to use cable in a sentence?

  1. Laura Martin:

    The next step for Time Warner Cable is waiting.

  2. Gene Kimmelman:

    The Charter/Time Warner Cable deal’s more of an Federal Communications Commission focus and there they have still a heavy lift. Will cable prices go up ? Will broadband prices go up ?

  3. Joe Rundle:

    It's definitely tin hats time. If Leave wins there will be carnage for cable.

  4. Mitch McConnell:

    If Republicans had introduced a bill to add four Supreme Court seats for the last president to full, there would have been weeks of wall-to-wall outrage on every newspaper and cable TV channel, now it seems the main strategies are to either shrug off and look the other way ot to actively pay along and somehow lend credence.

  5. Erica Lynn Rosenthal:

    Based on what we know about cable TV viewers in general, it would not be a stretch to imagine that there are many older Purples among Weather Channel viewers.

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