1. cable - Noun
2. cable - Verb
4. Cable - Proper noun
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.
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.
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.
To fasten with a cable.
To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
To telegraph by a submarine cable
Source: Webster's dictionaryHabit is a cable we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. Robert Burton
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. Anthony Michael Hall
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. Ben Stiller
A mouse in time may bite in two a cable. Vietnamese Proverb
In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable. Dutch Proverb