cable

cable has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• v. t.. To fasten with a cable.
• v. t.. To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
• v. t. & i.. To telegraph by a submarine cable
• n.. a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
• n.. a television system that transmits over cables
• n.. a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
• n.. a telegram sent abroad
• n.. television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
• n.. a nautical unit of depth