String vs Cable - What's the difference?
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(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
(music, countable) A stringed instrument.
(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
(slang) cannabis or marijuana
A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The points made in a game of billiards.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
(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 a noun string
is thong (as undergarment or swimwear).As a verb cable is
.As an adjective cable is
wired, cabled (connected by wires etc).string
English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
Synonyms
* (put on a string): thread * (put strings on): laceDerived terms
* cosmic string * heartstrings * string along * string band * string quartet * string up * string vest * stringyExternal links
* (wikipedia "string") * ----cable
English
(wikipedia cable)Noun
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