Cape vs Cable - What's the difference?
cape | cable |
(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
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(nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
(obsolete) To gape.
To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
(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.
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)Synonyms
* chersonese * peninsula * pointEtymology 2
(wikipedia cape) (etyl) capa, from .Noun
(en noun)- 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
* cloakVerb
(cap)- The ship capes southwest by south.
- (Chaucer)
Anagrams
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English
(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.}}