Fable vs Cable - What's the difference?
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A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, .
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
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The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
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(archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
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(archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
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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.
As verbs the difference between fable and cable
is that fable is (archaic) to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true while cable is .As a noun fable
is a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue prototypically,.As an adjective cable is
wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).fable
English
(wikipedia fable)Noun
(en noun)- Old wives' fables .
- We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
- It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
- The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.
Synonyms
* (fiction to enforce a useful precept) morality play * (story to excite wonder) legend * (falsehood)Verb
(fabl)- He Fables not.
- Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
- He fables , yet speaks truth.
- The hell thou fablest .
References
* (Webster 1913) ----cable
English
(wikipedia cable)Noun
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