Synonyms for cable
ˈkeɪ bəlca·ble

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1. cablenoun

   Synonyms:
   cord, wire rope, cablegram, cable length

   Antonyms:
   hawser

2. cablenoun

   To provide with cable(s)

   Synonyms:
   wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

   Antonyms:
   hawser

3. cablenoun

   To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

   Synonyms:
   cable length, cablegram, cord, wire rope

   Antonyms:
   hawser

4. cablenoun

   To wrap wires to form a cable

   Synonyms:
   wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

   Antonyms:
   hawser

5. cablenoun

   A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship

   Synonyms:
   cord, cable length, cablegram, wire rope

   Antonyms:
   hawser

6. cablenoun

   (communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables

   I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.

   Synonyms:
   wire rope, cord, cablegram, cable length

   Antonyms:
   hawser

7. cablenoun

   Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna

   Synonyms:
   cable length, cord, wire rope, cablegram

   Antonyms:
   hawser

8. cablenoun

   A telegram, notably when send by (submarine) telegraph cable

   Synonyms:
   wire rope, cablegram, cord, cable length

   Antonyms:
   hawser

9. cablenoun

   A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile

   Synonyms:
   wire rope, cable length, cablegram, cord

   Antonyms:
   hawser

10. cablenoun

    The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar

    Synonyms:
    cord, cablegram, wire rope, cable length

    Antonyms:
    hawser

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. cable, cablegram, overseas telegramnoun

   a telegram sent abroad

   Synonyms:
   line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

2. cable, line, transmission linenoun

   a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

   Synonyms:
   cable system, course, billet, short letter, assembly line, crease, overseas telegram, argumentation, railway line, argument, pedigree, product line, cable television, parentage, melodic line, rail line, business line, contrast, communication channel, job, phone line, line of products, occupation, credit line, blood line, cablegram, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, cable length, melodic phrase, stemma, channel, bank line, agate line, line of work, dividing line, stock, business, line of credit, furrow, lineage, wrinkle, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, note, origin, personal credit line, tune, line, line of descent, cable television service, melody, cable's length, telephone circuit, line of business, air, bloodline, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, crinkle, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, blood, logical argument, demarcation

3. cablenoun

   a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire

   Synonyms:
   line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

4. cable, cable length, cable's lengthnoun

   a nautical unit of depth

   Synonyms:
   line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

5. cable television, cablenoun

   television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

   Synonyms:
   line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable system, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, transmission line

6. cable, cable television, cable system, cable television serviceverb

   a television system that transmits over cables

   Synonyms:
   line, cable television, overseas telegram, cable's length, cable length, cablegram, cable television service, cable system, transmission line

7. cable, telegraph, wireverb

   send cables, wires, or telegrams

   Synonyms:
   wire, telegraph, electrify

8. cableverb

   fasten with a cable

   "cable trees"

   Synonyms:
   wire, telegraph

Matched Categories

1. • Conductor
   • Fasten
   • Linear Unit
   • Rope
   • Telecommunicate
   • Telegraphy
   • Television

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cable":

   wire, cord, cables, câble, wires, câblodistribution, rope, hkctv, wiring, wired, cabling, wireline, lead, telegram, télédistribution, cords, towline

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cable

   Synonyms:
   See Coaxial cable
   

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How to use cable in a sentence?

1. Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani:

   In this way, the brake couldn’t function, and this brought about the fact that when the cable broke, the cabin fell backwards.

2. Rich Greenfield:

   Churning off of a service once meant finding the phone number of your cable operator, navigating an automated menu and waiting on hold, we now live in a world where with a couple of clicks of your finger on your phone, all of the friction from cancellation is gone.

3. Marise Payne:

   The cable is so practical, so important and so emblematic of the relationship between Australia and our key partners in the Pacific, the Coral Sea Cable will deliver for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands a connected future, Payne said, adding that the aim was for the cable to be operational by December. China denies using economic aid as political leverage, insisting it considers the ability of a country to repay loans when offering finance. In a bid to counter China, Australia has offered A$ 3 billion( $ 2.03 billion) in cheap loans and grants to the Pacific. The competition for influence in the Pacific has soured bilateral relations between Australia and China. The relationship came under further strain on Tuesday when China confirmed it has formally arrested a Chinese-born Australian writer on suspicion of espionage. Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese diplomat turned online journalist and blogger, was detained in January. Payne on Tuesday said Australia held grave concerns about Yang Hengjun and the.

4. Directors Paul and Alicia Schneider:

   In 2019, when we first started working on this project, 70 new Christmas movies premiered on the main cable Christmas movie channels and none of them contained gay lead characters or storylines.

5. Tim Dixon:

   I think the difference is partisan cable television came many years earlier in the United States than any other country, and I think that's really had a significant effect.