Etymology
Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
Noun
cable (plural cables)
- (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- Synonyms: wire rope, cord; see also Thesaurus:string
- 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.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- Coordinate term: hawser
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:“And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.
2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […] . Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- Synonym: cablegram
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- Synonym: cable length
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
Translations
large wire, rope
- Armenian: ճոպան (hy) (čopan)
- Bashkir: арҡан (arqan)
- Belarusian: трос m (tros), кана́т m (kanát)
- Bulgarian: дебе́ло въже́ n (debélo vǎžé)
- Catalan: cable (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 纜繩/缆绳 (zh) (lǎnshéng), 纜索/缆索 (zh) (lǎnsuǒ)
- Czech: lano (cs) n
- Danish: kabel (da) n
- Dutch: kabel (nl) m
- Esperanto: kablo
- Finnish: kaapeli (fi)
- French: câble (fr) m
- Galician: cabo (gl) m, cable (gl) m, calabrote m
- Georgian: ბაგირი (bagiri), კაბელი (ka) (ḳabeli)
- German: Seil (de), Tau (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: σπάρτον n (spárton)
- Hebrew: כֶּבֶל (he) m (kével), כָּבֶּל (he) m (kábel)
- Hungarian: kábel (hu)
- Indonesian: kabel (id)
- Irish: cábla m
- Italian: cavo (it) m
- Khmer: ពួរ (km) (puə), ខ្សែ (km) (khsae)
- Lao: ເຊືອກ (sư̄ak)
- Latin: saphon m
- Latvian: trose (lv) f
- Lithuanian: lynas m
- Macedonian: јаже n (jaže), ортома f (ortoma), гајтан m (gajtan)
- Malay: tali belati
- Maori: taura
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kabel (no) m
- Nynorsk: kabel m
- Polish: kabel (pl) m, przewód (pl) m
- Portuguese: cabo (pt) m
- Romanian: cablu (ro), frânghie (ro) f
- Russian: трос (ru) m (tros), кана́т (ru) m (kanát)
- Scottish Gaelic: càball m
- Slovak: lano n
- Slovene: kabel (sl) m
- Spanish: cable (es) m
- Swedish: kabel (sv) c, wire (sv) c
- Tatar: аркан (tt) (arkan)
- Thai: พวน (th) (puuan), เชือก (th) (chʉ̂ʉak)
- Ukrainian: трос m (tros), ли́нва (uk) f (lýnva), кодо́ла (uk) f (kodóla), кана́т (uk) m (kanát)
- Uzbek: kabel (uz)
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assembly of wires for electricity
- Albanian: kabllo (sq) m
- Arabic: كَابْل m (kābl)
- Armenian: մալուխ (hy) (malux), կաբել (hy) (kabel)
- Azerbaijani: kabel (az)
- Belarusian: ка́бель m (kábjelʹ)
- Bulgarian: ка́бел (bg) m (kábel)
- Burmese: သံကြိုး (my) (samkrui:)
- Catalan: cable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電纜/电缆 (zh) (diànlǎn), 電線/电线 (zh) (diànxiàn)
- Czech: kabel (cs) m
- Danish: kabel (da) n
- Dutch: (electrische) kabel (nl) m
- Esperanto: kablo
- Estonian: kaabel (et)
- Finnish: kaapeli (fi)
- French: câble (fr) m, fil électrique m
- Galician: cable (gl) m
- Georgian: კაბელი (ka) (ḳabeli), სადენი (sadeni)
- German: Kabel (de) n, Leitung (de) f
- Greek: καλώδιο (el) (kalódio)
- Hebrew: כֶּבֶל (he) m (kevél)
- Hindi: केबल m (kebal)
- Italian: cavo (it) m, cavo elettrico m
- Japanese: ケーブル (ja) (kēburu), 電線 (ja) (densen), 電纜 (ja) (でんらん, denran)
- Kazakh: кабель (kabel), кәбіл (käbıl), шоғырсым (şoğyrsym)
- Khmer: ខ្សែលួសធំ (khsae luəh thom), ពួរ (km) (puə), ខ្សែ (km) (khsae)
- Korean: 케이블 (ko) (keibeul), 까벨 (ko) (kkabel) (North Korea), 전선(電線) (ko) (jeonseon), 전람(電纜) (ko) (jeollam)
- Kyrgyz: кабель (ky) (kabel)
- Lao: ລວດ (lūat), ສາຍໄຟ (sāi fai)
- Latvian: kabelis m
- Lithuanian: kabelis m
- Macedonian: кабел m (kabel)
- Malay: kabel
- Maori: taura hiko
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: утас (mn) (utas)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kabel (no) m, ledning m or f
- Nynorsk: kabel m, leidning m
- Persian: کابل (fa) (kâbl) (Iran), کیبل (kēbl, kēbal) (Dari)
- Polish: kabel (pl) m, przewód (pl) m
- Portuguese: cabo (pt) m, fio (pt) m
- Romanian: cablu (ro) n, conductor (ro) m
- Russian: ка́бель (ru) m (kábelʹ), про́вод (ru) m (próvod)
- Scottish Gaelic: càball m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка́бел m
- Roman: kábel (sh) m
- Slovak: kábel m
- Slovene: kabel (sl) m, vodič (sl) m
- Spanish: cable (es) m
- Swedish: elkabel (sv) c, kabel (sv) c
- Tagalog: (literally) kable n
- Tajik: кабел (tg) (kabel)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Tatar: кабель (qabel’)
- Thai: เคเบิล (kee-bə̂n), ลวด (th) (lûuat), สายไฟ (th) (sǎai-fai)
- Turkish: kablo (tr)
- Turkmen: kabel
- Ukrainian: ка́бель (uk) m (kábelʹ)
- Urdu: کیبَل m (kebal)
- Uzbek: kabel (uz)
- Vietnamese: cáp (vi)
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heavy rope or chain as used for mooring
communications system with coaxial or fiber optic
TV broadcast over cable network
texture pattern in knitting
Translations to be checked
Verb
cable (third-person singular simple present cables, present participle cabling, simple past and past participle cabled)
- (transitive) To provide with cable(s)
- (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
- (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
- (transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable
- (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.
- (knitting) To create cable stitches.
2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
Translations
fasten (as if) with cable(s)
send a telegram by cable(s)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkable/ [ˈkɑ.β̞lɪ]
- Rhymes: -able
- Hyphenation: ca‧ble
Noun
cable m (plural cables)
- (material) cable
- 1432, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69:
Outrosy, que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela e o que o contrario fezer peyte de pena por la primeira vez XX marauedises e por la segunda XXX maravedisse e por la tercera que pague perca o caabre ou cordaçon que asy amarrar o dito nauio e fasta dez dias enna cadea- Also, that nobody dares to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, nor to put stakes in it. Whoever does another thing shall pay as a penalty 20 maravedis for the first time, 30 for the second time, and for the third time he will lose the cable or rope used for mooring the ship, and shall stay up to ten days in prison
- Synonym: cabo
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caabre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cable”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cable”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cable”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Noun
cable (plural cables)
- A cable or strong rope (as used in nautical applications)
- Any kind of rope or cable; a supporting wire.
Noun
cable oblique singular, m (oblique plural cables, nominative singular cables, nominative plural cable)
- Alternative form of chable
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkable/ [ˈka.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: ca‧ble