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As adjectives the difference between female and cable

is that female is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has xx chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made) while cable is wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).

As a noun female

is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

As a verb cable is

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female

English

Adjective

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  • Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  • * 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
  • A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
  • Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
  • (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
  • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
  • Synonyms

    * feminine * (figuratively) socket

    Coordinate terms

    * intersex * transgender * male * neuter

    Derived terms

    * female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
  • # An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
  • # (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
  • Synonyms

    * girl; see also * woman; see also

    See also

    * female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identity

    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

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