Definition of cable

"cable" in the noun sense

1. cable, cablegram, overseas telegram

a telegram sent abroad

2. cable, line, transmission line

a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

3. cable

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

4. cable, cable length, cable's length

a nautical unit of depth

5. cable television, cable

television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

6. cable, cable television, cable system, cable television service

a television system that transmits over cables

"cable" in the verb sense

1. cable, telegraph, wire

send cables, wires, or telegrams

2. cable

fasten with a cable

"cable trees"

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Quotations for cable

A mouse, in time, may shear a cable asunder. [ Proverb ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. [ Horace Mann ]

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]

cable in Scrabble®

The word cable is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters cable:

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cable in Words With Friends™

The word cable is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters cable:

CABLE
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Words within the letters of cable

2 letter words in cable (4 words)

3 letter words in cable (6 words)

4 letter words in cable (3 words)

5 letter words in cable (1 word)

cable + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving cable

Shorter words in cable

ab able

ab cab

Longer words containing cable

amicable amicableness unamicableness

amicable unamicable unamicableness

applicable applicableness

applicable inapplicable

applicable nonapplicable

applicable unapplicable

cablebased

cablecar cablecars

cablecast cablecasting

cablecast cablecasts

cabled recabled

cabled uncabled

cablegram cablegrams

cableless

cablelike

cableman

cablemen

cabler cablers

cables educables

cables impeccables

cables predicables

cables vocables

cableway cableways

communicable communicableness noncommunicableness

communicable excommunicable

communicable incommunicable

communicable intercommunicable

communicable noncommunicable noncommunicableness

deprecable

despicable despicableness

educable educables

educable ineducable

educable noneducable

educable uneducable uneducableness

eradicable

explicable explicableness inexplicableness

explicable inexplicable inexplicableness

extricable inextricable

fabricable

indicable

influencable

inimicable inimicableness

intoxicable

intricable

nondomesticable

peccable impeccable impeccableness

peccable impeccable impeccables

peccable peccableness impeccableness

placable implacable

placable placableness

practicable impracticable

practicable practicableness

practicable unpracticable

predicable predicableness

predicable predicables

reciprocable

replicable irreplicable

replicable nonreplicable

replicable unreplicable

silencable

theatricable

trafficable

undomesticable

unduplicable

unenforcable

vocable evocable revocable irrevocable

vocable invocable

vocable provocable

vocable vocables