Cable vs Sable - What's the difference?
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(label) A long object used to make a physical connection.
# A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
# An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
# An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
# (label) A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship.
(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
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, title= # Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
(label) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
(label) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
(label) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
To provide with cable(s)
To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
To wrap wires to form a cable
To send a telegram by cable
To communicate by cable
(architecture) To ornament with cabling.
A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina , from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur ().
The marten, especially .
The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
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*:Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables .
An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable ().
(lb) A black colour on a coat of arms.
A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
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Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
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*:Sables wove by destiny.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables , radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Of the black colour sable.
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(tincture): In blazon, of the colour black.
Made of sable fur.
Dark, somber.
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As nouns the difference between cable and sable
is that cable is a long object used to make a physical connection while sable is a small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia).As a verb cable
is to provide with cable(s.As an adjective sable is
of the black colour sable.cable
English
(wikipedia cable)Noun
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Synonyms
* wire rope * cord * (telegram) cablegram * (nautical unit) cable length * See alsoAntonyms
* (nautical rope) hawser (thinner)Derived terms
* cablecar * cablegram * cable internet * cable-laid * cable television * cableway * chain-cableVerb
(cabl)Derived terms
* cable guyAnagrams
* ----sable
English
Alternative forms
* (in heraldic contexts)Noun
Derived terms
* sable antelope * sablefish * sable iron * sable mouseAdjective
(en adjective)- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
- They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.