Meaning of cable In English

• 0 a set of wires, covered by plastic, that carries electricity, phone signals, etc.:

  • a length of cable

  • The road has been dug up in order to lay cables.

  • overhead power cables

• 1 →  cable television :

  • The office has gone over to cable.

  • This channel is only available on cable.

• 2 to put cables under the ground in an area so that television or phone signals can be sent along them:

  • Many rural areas have not yet been cabled.

  • You will have to buy a satellite dish or get cabled up.

• 3 (a length of) wire, esp. twisted into thick, strong rope or used to carry electricity:

  • [ C ] They dug up the road in order to lay phone cables.

• 4 (in the past) a message sent by electric signal

• 5 a set of covered wires or fibres that electrical or electronic signals travel through:

  • lay/install cable Hotels use Wi-Fi to provide in-room access without having to lay cable.

  • ethernet/fibre-optic/network/power cable

• 6 the system of sending television programmes or phone signals along wires under the ground:

  • This channel is only available on cable.