a thick insulated bundle of wires or fibres that carries electricity or electronic signals
He used a long cable to connect the computer to the projector.
The bridge is supported by thick steel cables stretching to the towers.
✦ From Middle English cable, from Old French, from Latin capulum “a rope, halter.”
to send a message or news by telegraph or other rapid wire service, especially across long distances
In 1915, the reporter cabled the news back to London from the battlefield.
He promised to cable me the results as soon as he arrived in New York.
✦ From the noun cable, referring to the undersea telegraph cables first laid in the 19th century.
