CABLE

Cable

Cable is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as Nathan Summers in Uncanny X-Men #201 while Cable's identity was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist/co-writer Rob Liefeld and first appeared in The New Mutants #87 . He was born in the present Marvel timeline but was sent into a distant future.

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cable

Noun

  1. A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
  2. An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes
  3. An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
  4. A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship
  5. (communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables
    I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.
  6. Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna
  7. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable
  8. A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile
  9. The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar
  10. A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.

Verb

  1. To provide with cable(s)
  2. To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
  3. To wrap wires to form a cable
  4. To send a telegram by cable
  5. To communicate by cable
  6. To ornament with cabling.


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