Cable vs Satellite - 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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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 moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
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(colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
As a verb cable
is .As an adjective cable
is wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).As a noun satellite is
a moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.cable
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(wikipedia cable)Noun
(en noun)Turn it off, passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
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
* ----satellite
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
- A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite .
- Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
- We read in the Bible, that Nicanor'' the persecutor of Gods Law.
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- The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr. Watson type of satellite —a narrator who accompanies the detective on his exploits, exclaims over his brilliance.
- Do you have satellite at your house?