Usually means: Wires enclosed for transmitting signals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cable, cable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cable, cable: Wordnik
  7. cable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cable, Cable: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Cable, cable: Wiktionary
  10. cable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cable: Dictionary.com
  14. cable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cable (American band), Cable (British band), Cable (comic book), Cable (comics), Cable (foreign exchange), Cable (surname), Cable (unit), Cable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cable: Rhymezone
  20. cable, cable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. cable: Free Dictionary
  23. cable: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. cable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Cable: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. cable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cable: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Cable: bizterms.net
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Cable: Moneyterms
  8. Cable: Investopedia
  9. cable: Legal dictionary
  10. Cable: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cable: Netlingo
  2. Cable, cable: CCI Computer
  3. cable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cable: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. CABLE: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Cable: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Cable: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cable: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cable: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cable: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cable: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. cable: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Cable: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  6. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  9. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  10. Cable: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See cabled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
noun:  A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
noun:  An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
noun:  An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
noun:  (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
noun:  (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
noun:  A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
noun:  (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
noun:  (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
noun:  (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
noun:  (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
noun:  (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with cable(s)
verb:  (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
verb:  (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
verb:  (transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
verb:  (intransitive) To communicate by cable
verb:  (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
verb:  (knitting) To create cable stitches.
noun:  A surname from Anglo-Norman.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Richland Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Champaign County, Ohio.
noun:  A town and census-designated place therein, in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
noun:  (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna. [Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.]

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