Word Finder - cable

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(material) A long object used to make a physical connection.

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(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

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I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.

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A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

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A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

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(unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.

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The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.

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A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.

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A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.

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To provide with cable(s)

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To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

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To wrap wires to form a cable

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To send a telegram by cable

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To communicate by cable

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To ornament with cabling.

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To create cable stitches.

He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark tied together.

All rooms are equipped with cable TV and mini refrigerator.

Even the splash of the anchor in the water, and the noise of the cable running out through the hawse-hole, in no way disturbed them at their occupation, or caused them to evince the slightest curiosity.

Communication with the United States is effected by land lines to Valparaiso, and thence by a cable along the west coast.

The lower end e of the cable in the tank T is taken to the testing room, so that continuous tests for electrical condition can be made.

Havana, Santiago and Cienfuegos are cable ports.

There is a various reading «aµuAos (cable) for Ka/lfXos (camel), but Cheyne, in the Ency.

When an engineer has to construct a railway up a hill having a still steeper slope, he must secure practicable gradients by laying out the line in ascending spirals, if necessary tunnelling into the hill, as on the St Gothard railway, or in a series of zigzags, or he must resort to a rack or a cable railway.

For surmounting still steeper slopes, cable railways may be employed.

The cable is slow; and unless development along new lines of com p ressed air or some sort of chemical engine takes place, electricity will monopolize the field.

The system usually adopted is a modification of the Canadian system already described, the boring rods being, however, of iron instead of wood, but the cable system has also to some extent been used.

A submarine cable connects the town with Zanzibar.

The cable and telegraph line from Otranto, in Italy, to Constantinople, has an important station here.

The telegraph lines, which date from 1852, are owned and operated by the national government, with the exception of the lines constructed by private railway companies, and the cable lines of the Amazon and the coast.

At Para connexion is made with the cable laid in the bed of the Amazon to Manaos, which is owned and operated by a subsidized English company.

At Vizeu, Para, connexion is made with a French cable to the West Indies and the United States, and at Pernambuco with two cable lines to Europe.

Each of the rooms has cable TV, coffee maker, iron and ironing board, bathrobe, hairdryer and whirlpool bath.

The system includes Video head, soft case, 2 reusable specula (4mm and 5mm) and 12 foot RCA video cable.

The following year an additional cable was laid from Bacton, in Norfolk, to Borkum, in Germany, at the joint expense of the British and German governments.

In 1894 the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company laid a cable from Singapore to Labuan and Hong Kong, thus duplicating the route and making it an all-British line.

In 1900 direct telegraph working was established between London and Genoa, and a third cable was laid to South Africa via St Helena and Ascension.

The committee was of opinion that the cable should be owned and worked by the governments interested, and that the general direction should be in the hands of a manager in London under the control of a small board at which the associated governments should be represented.

In the case of inland telegraphs and of cable communication with the continent of Europe government control has entirely superseded private companies.

Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

If we suppose the cable interrupted at any place, and both sides of the gap earthed by connexion to plates, then the same conditions will still hold.

A cable is carried out from the mainland at Crookhaven for 7 m., and the outer end earthed by connexion with a copper mushroom anchor.

If a battery on the mainland is connected through a key with the shore end of the main cable, and a speaking galvanometer is in circuit with the short cable crossing the Fastnet rock, then closing or opening the battery connexion will create a deflection of the galvanometer.

Owing to the rough seas sweeping over the Fastnet, the conditions are such that any ordinary submarine cable would be broken by the wearing action of the waves at the rock boundary in a very short time.

The station was opened shortly afterwards for public service, the rates being greatly below that then current for the cable service.

In the types of cable that were first used, the wires, usually with a cotton insulation, were drawn into lead tubes, and the tubes filled with paraffin or other similar compound, which kept the wires from the injurious effects of any moisture which might penetrate the lead tube.

This form of cable has been superseded by a type with paper insulation.

In the manufacture of the cable the wires are first enclosed in the paper, which is applied sometimes longitudinally and sometimes spirally.

The cable is then placed in an oven, and, after all moisture has been driven off, it is passed through a lead press whence it emerges protected by a continuous lead pipe.

The electrostatic capacity of a cable of this type is low, and its dimensions are small, the external diameter of a cable containing 1600 ten-lb conductors being only 24 in.

In this case the cables terminate upon the poles, the connexions between the cable wires and the open wires being made with rubber-covered leads.

Attempts have been made to improve submarine cables in this respect, and in 1906 a short cable " loaded " with Pupin coils was laid across Lake Constance.

The problem, however, of constructing a deep-sea cable satisfactorily, with suitable inductance coils inserted at short distances apart, is a difficult one, and one which it cannot be said has been solved.

This custom of buying and selling through brokers continued unshaken until the laying of the Atlantic cable tempted selling brokers occasionally, and even some buying brokers, to buy direct from American factors by telegraph and thus transform themselves into quasi-importers.

To these publications were at various times added the annual report, issued in December, the American crop report, issued in September, and the daily advices by cable from America, issued every morning."

If a spinner is pressed by a shipper to make quotations with refusal for two or three days to give time for business to be settled by cable, it is evidently not impossible for the spinner to shift the risk involved by getting in turn from his broker refusal quotations for cotton.

Recent statistics bearing upon cotton are collected annually in the two publications, Shepperson's Cotton Facts and Jones's Handbook for Daily Cable Records of Cotton Crop Statistics.

When the jars come together they slack back about 4 in., and the cable is in position to be clamped in the temper-screw.

The tools may be standing at the bottom - while he is playing with the slack of the cable or they may be swinging all the time several feet from the bottom.

The temper-screw forms the connecting link between the walking-beam and cable, and it is ' let out ' gradually to regulate the play of the jars as fast as the drill penetrates.

In readiness for a fracture of the drilling tools or of the cable, special appliances known as fishing tools are provided.

The fishing tools are generally attached to the cable, and are used with portions of the ordinary string of tools, but some are fitted to pump-rods or tubing, and others to special rods.

The corporation has acquired the gas-works, the cable tramways (leased to a company), the electric lighting of the streets, and the water-supply from the Pentlands (reinforced by additional sources in the Moorfoot Hills and Talla Water).

These suburbs are connected with the city, some by railway, some by steam, cable and electric tramways, and others by ferry across Port Jackson.

A submarine cable from Durban goes to Zanzibar and Aden, whence there is communication with every quarter of the globe.

Iquique is a city of much commercial importance and is provided with banks, substantial business houses, newspapers, clubs, schools, railways, tramways, electric lights, telephone lines, and steamship and cable communication with the outside world.