Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

cable

1. ca.ble \'ka--b*l\ n [ME, fr. ONF, fr. ML capulum lasso, fr. L capere to 
   take - more a] often attrib t HEAVE 1a: a strong rope esp. of 10 or more 
   inches in circumference  1b: a cable-laid rope  1c: a wire rope or metal 
   chain of great tensile strength  1d: a wire or wire rope by which force is 
   exerted to control or operate a m echanism 2: CABLE LENGTH  3a: an assembly 
   of electrical conductors insulated from each other but laid  up together 
   usu. by being twisted around a central core 3b: CABLEGRAM  4: something 
   resembling or fashioned like a cable 
2. cable \'ka--b(*-)lin\ vb or ca.bling 1: to fasten with or as if with a 
   cable  2: to provide with cables  3: to telegraph by submarine cable  4: to 
   make into a cable or into a form resembling a cable  : to communicate by a 
   submarine cable