(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.
Kate
Definition:
(n.) The brambling finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
(2) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(3) Kate Cernik and Mandy Wearne examine the concept and its importance to health visitors and community nurses and ask what is involved in the profiling process and who should be doing it.
(4) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
(5) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
(6) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
(7) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
(8) MPs including Chuka Umunna, Stephen Doughty and Kate Green won the backing of 101 MPs, including 49 Labour rebels, for their amendment to the Queen’s speech, which called for the government to abandon the idea that “no deal is better than a bad deal” in the Brexit talks.
(9) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
(10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
(11) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(12) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(13) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
(14) katE hybridized with C. freundii and K. pneumoniae DNAs and not with the other bacterial DNAs.
(15) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
(16) They solve it, correctly, by making him abdicate, with a bit of help from Prince William’s wife, Kate.
(17) The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2009 Written in the midst of the financial crisis, The Spirit Level attempted to show how countries with wide income disparities tended to face more social problems – more crime, more violence, more drug abuse, worse education, and less social mobility.
(18) "So sad to hear of the loss of Nils Horner: a serious-minded, well-informed, humane reporter," said Kabul-based analyst Kate Clark.
(19) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
(20) Clearly angry and upset, Kate McCann said: "We need to make it clear to people: we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children.