2. Verb. (third-person singular of cable) ¹
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Definition of Cables
1. cable [v] - See also: cable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cables
Literary usage of Cables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Ships by Cecil Torr (1894)
"On the war-ships the hull was strengthened externally by a set of cables. ...
4 and 5, similar cables were stretched from stem to stern over posts ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"By A, IEE PROBLEMS OF OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF UNDERGROUND cables BY JOHN L.
HARPER ABSTRACT OF PAPER The scarcity and high cost of transmission ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Heavy cables should be laid out to depths of 400 fathoms, where there are tide-ways.
Where a current exists, a position should be sought for as far removed ..."
4. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"The erection of one suspension bridge from which to build the cables of another
... The cables of the New East River Bridge No. 2, also designated as " The ..."
5. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"The Cutting of Submarine Telegraphic cables. As an incident of maritime warfare
a belligerent may not unlawfully interrupt submarine telegraphic cable ..."
6. The Journal of Science (1864)
"There are two descriptions of cables required for marine construction ...
Respecting the shallow-water cables, in which category we class the lino between ..."
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