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cable
cable is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
- 2noun
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
- 3noun
A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.
- 4transitive verb
To fasten with a cable.
- 5transitive verb
To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
- 6transitive/intransitive verb
To telegraph by a submarine cable
- 7noun
a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- 8noun
a television system that transmits over cables
- 9noun
a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
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- 10noun
a telegram sent abroad
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- 11noun
television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- 12noun
a nautical unit of depth
- 13verb
send cables, wires, or telegrams
- 14verb
fasten with a cable
"cable trees"
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