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cape | cable |

As a noun cape

is hard earth layer (while digging).

As a verb cable is

.

As an adjective cable is

wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).

cape

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) cap, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
  • Synonyms
    * chersonese * peninsula * point

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia cape) (etyl) capa, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
    See also
    * cloak

    Verb

    (cap)
  • (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
  • The ship capes southwest by south.
  • (obsolete) To gape.
  • (Chaucer)
  • To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    cable

    English

    (wikipedia cable)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • # 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.
  • Synonyms

    * wire rope * cord * (telegram) cablegram * (nautical unit) cable length * See also

    Antonyms

    * (nautical rope) hawser (thinner)

    Derived terms

    * cablecar * cablegram * cable internet * cable-laid * cable television * cableway * chain-cable

    Verb

    (cabl)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * cable guy

    Anagrams

    * ----