(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.
Shifter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
(2) The DEAE-dextran-subtilisin displayed pH optima and Km values for ester hydrolysis similar to subtilisin, whereas the pH versus activity profiles obtained with DEAE-Sephadex-subtilisin were shifter towards the alkaline pH region and the Km values were increased.
(3) The Olympic Games are a great inspiration to get things done.” The mayor – a political shape-shifter who has been in five different parties including the Greens, Labour and, currently, the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party of the interim president Michel Temer – also refuted allegations that his focus for Olympic investment has been only on the wealthier parts of the city.
(4) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(5) A pulsed Doppler cardiotocograph module was extended to obtain low frequency Doppler signals, by the addition of a 90 degree phase shifter, analog multipliers, quadrature detector, sample and hold circuits and low pass filters, to produce five simultaneous outputs representing movement at depths separated by 1.5cm intervals.
(6) The establishment is a shape-shifter, evolving and adapting as needs must.
(7) The Bragg peak modulation by axial beam stacking employing a variable range shifter is explained and the control system including beam monitoring and dosimetry is presented.
(8) The shifter hypothesis is consistent with available anatomical and physiological evidence on the organization of the primate visual pathway, and it offers a sensible explanation for a variety of otherwise puzzling facts, such as the plethora of cells in the geniculorecipient layers of V1.
(9) Individuals classified as successful shifters, whether in the right or left direction, displayed a more ambihanded behavioural pattern than either unsuccessful shifters or the no shift control group.
(10) A threefold increase caused by a chromosomal mutation, hsh1 (high shifter), had the same effect.
(11) Lawyers will become unit-shifters, with no more investment in justice than the server at Costa Coffee has in your flat white.
(12) This argues against a general deblurring mechanism, such as a neural network 'shifter circuit', and we point out that the high level of vernier acuity for moving stimuli is susceptible to an alternative explanation.
(13) This technique can get rid of the shortcoming of the method usually used, in which wavelength shifter is directly incorporated to Cherenkov medium.
(14) The proposed solution involves what we term "shifter circuits," which allow for dynamic shifts in the relative alignment of input and output arrays without loss of local spatial relationships.
(15) Propranolol shifted the dose-response curves downward and to the right for all agonists; phentolamine, shifter the curves upward and to the left.
(16) Lateral eye-shift in preschool children was related to the use of more nouns in description by 14 right-shifters, more adjectives by 19 left-shifters.
(17) The Farc need constant reassuring because they are very, very mistrustful,” Shifter says.
(18) By this point, as it turned out the Ventolin inhaler girl was also a shape-shifter, I was looking at Twitter for reassurance.
(19) Various liquids (water, glycerol, sodium iodide solution; and glycerol plus a wavelength shifter) were investigated as possible Cerenkov media.
(20) But Shifter said Iran's president should not hope for big advances during his tour.