Noun

(en noun)

(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.

* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:

Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].

* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

* 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:

All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night

* 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :

He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

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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.

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# 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.