What's the difference between cable and fable?

Cable


Definition:

  • (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.

Fable


Definition:

  • (n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
  • (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
  • (3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
  • (4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
  • (5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
  • (6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
  • (7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
  • (8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
  • (9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
  • (10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
  • (11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
  • (12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
  • (13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
  • (14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
  • (16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
  • (17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
  • (18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
  • (19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
  • (20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.