(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To fasten with a cable.
(v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
(v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(2) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(3) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(4) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(5) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(6) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(7) Cable, once a leading critic of City speculation, insists the shares will go to responsible investors.
(8) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
(9) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(10) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(11) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
(12) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(13) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(14) This kind of spatial expansion has been predicted with cable models of receptive fields where inductive elements are included in modeling the neuronal membranes.
(15) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(16) Despite a lack of traditional campaign organization, a mix of big rallies and constant appearances on cable news helped Trump defeat what had been described as the strongest field in Republican history.
(17) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(18) The Telegraph's secret taping of Cable and fellow Liberal Democrat ministers while pretending to be concerned constituents has raised eyebrows in some media quarters, but the newspaper has claimed a "clear public interest" defence for its actions.
(19) The culture secretary said he "just heard Mr Murdoch out, and basically heard what he had to say about what was on his mind at that time" during the phone conversation on 16 November 2010, when Cable still had responsibility for the bid.
(20) "After the cable landed, we gave unlimited capacity to all the universities.
Catenary
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Catenarian
(n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following percutaneous administration, the drug seems to be absorbed catenary to some degree.
(2) Two model structures, mammillary and catenary, were fitted to the data.
(3) Tissue loading was determined using a previously verified model of the capsule that represents its upper edge as a catenary suspension cable.
(4) A catenary process of development of orientation selectivity is proposed, the immature compartment being a transit pool between non-specific and specific cells.
(5) A theory is developed, for drugs that can be described by pure catenary pharmacokinetic models, which enables one to quantitatively determine at what time a cyclic infusion of drug should be initiated, what the frequency of infusion should be, and what the amplitude of the infusion should be to obtain maximum therapeutic benefit at steady state.
(6) Two mandibular arch forms, the catenary and the Bonwill-Hawley, were examined.
(7) As examples, the method is applied to mammillary and catenary models.
(8) This theoretical analysis suggested that in vitro nitrate action is mediated by a catenary process, consistent with published biochemical evidence that suggests a series of reactions involving metabolic activation to nitric oxide, production of cyclic GMP, and myosin light-chain phosphorylation to produce relaxation.
(9) Elimination of the drug by metabolism and excretion was described by a catenary model.
(10) Polynomial and catenary equations were fit by least square error methods to the dentitions of seven children with "normal" occlusion.
(11) As an example, the expression of D for mammillary and catenary pharmacokinetic models is derived.
(12) The method is applicable to catenary metabolites with any precursor order and does not require separate administration of the metabolite.
(13) The model consists of a catenary system of a biorhythmic control, the adrenal gland, and a body compartment containing circulating cortisol.
(14) A catenary turnover model is proposed, which links in vivo erythrocyte labile cholesterol and plasma esterified cholesterol.
(15) 45Ca desaturation from rat kidney slices can be analyzed as in an open three-compartment catenary system.
(16) This approach, which treats excretion as the 'last' compartment of all catenary metabolic pathways, avoids the use of convolution integrals and provides algebraic solutions that can be programmed on hand held calculators or personal computers.
(17) There was no synthesis in pool 3 using a mammillary model but a mean 5.3 percent of the total body production rate was found in compartment 3 if a catenary model was assumed.
(18) (The catenary is found in nature as the approximate shape taken by a flexible cable when it is suspended at two points).
(19) The hydrolysis rate of the acetate ester moiety was found to be slow, with a minimum in the pH-rate catenary at approximately pH 3.5.
(20) Although a catenary model is biologically unlikely, it could not be excluded.