| 单词 | cable |
| 释义 | cable —cablelike, adj. /kay"beuhl/, n. , v. , cabled, cabling. n. 1. a heavy, strong rope. 2. a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges. 3. a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism. 4. Naut. a. a thick hawser made of rope, strands of metal wire, or chain. b. See cable's length. 5. Elect. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another. 6. cablegram. 7. See cable television. 8. cable-stitch. 9. Archit. one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster. v.t. 10. to send (a message) by cable. 11. to send a cablegram to. 12. to fasten with a cable. 13. to furnish with a cable. 14. to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network: The state will be completely cabled in a few years. v.i. 15. to send a message by cable. 16. to cable-stitch. [1175-1225; ME, prob. < ONF *cable < LL capulum lasso; cf. L capulare to rope, halter (cattle), akin to capere to take] |
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