Harness vs Cable - What's the difference?
harness | cable |
(countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
(countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
(dated) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
* 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth , act V, scene V
The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
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, title= To capture, control or put to use.
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, title= (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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, title= # 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.
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 harness and cable
is that harness is to place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain while cable is .As a noun harness
is (countable) a restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.As an adjective cable is
wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).harness
English
Noun
(es)- Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
- At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Derived terms
* harnessed antelope * harnessed moth * test harnessVerb
(es)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
See also
* (wikipedia "harness") *cable
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.}}
