- [countable, uncountable] a set of wires, covered in plastic or rubber, that carries electricity, phone signals, etc.
- fibre-optic cable
- a power cable
- overhead/underground/undersea cables
- a 10 000-volt cable
- a USB cable
- a length of electric cable
- They're digging up the road to lay cables.
Extra ExamplesTopics The environmentb2, Engineeringb2- Connect the cable to the correct terminal.
- I plugged the cable into the amplifier.
- Engineers plan to run the telephone cables under the river.
- There is a cable running under the road.
- Roads have to be dug up to lay underground cables.
- Fibre broadband uses faster and more reliable fibre-optic cables.
- new cables connecting major cities in Europe
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- electric
- telephone
- overhead
- …
- length
- lay
- run
- attach
- …
- go
- run
- connect something
- …
- [uncountable, countable] thick strong metal rope used on ships, for supporting bridges, etc.Topics Transport by waterc1
- [uncountable] (also cable television, cable TV)a system of broadcasting television programmes along wires rather than by radio waves
- We can receive up to 500 cable channels.
- We just had cable installed.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + cable- get
- have
- install
- …
- television
- TV
- channel
- …
- [countable] (old-fashioned) a message sent by electrical signals and printed out
Word OriginMiddle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French chable, from late Latin capulum ‘halter’.
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