Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fastened or supplied with a cable or cables.
  • In architecture, having the ornament called a cable.
  • In heraldry, formed of a cable: applied to a cross formed of the two ends of a ship's cable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
  • adjective (Arch.) Adorned with cabling.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cable.

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Examples

  • “This experiment is particularly timely because it provides subsurface geological information that complements the work of the NEPTUNE Canada project at the University of Victoria to install a long-term cabled hydrothermal observatory in the hydrothermal fields” said William Wilcock, a UW marine geophysicist and a co-principal investigator on the project.

    More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • This should be checked, however, because in short cabled distribution systems (typical for LV systems) the cable cross section might be determined by the current capacity.

    1. Swer, a low cost rural distribution system using single wire earth return. 1992

  • The CIA "white paper" and the British Iraq "dossier" were compiled in close proximity, with British officials bringing drafts to discuss in Washington, trans-Atlantic videoconferences, and cabled updates.

    John Prados: Reframing the Iraq War John Prados 2010

  • Oh, and I agree that cellis20 that, in #1, the cabled fence couldn't be electric - the rebar would just ground it out.

    Busting 10 Snake-Related Email Hoaxes 2009

  • The CIA "white paper" and the British Iraq "dossier" were compiled in close proximity, with British officials bringing drafts to discuss in Washington, trans-Atlantic videoconferences, and cabled updates.

    John Prados: Reframing the Iraq War John Prados 2010

  • The CIA "white paper" and the British Iraq "dossier" were compiled in close proximity, with British officials bringing drafts to discuss in Washington, trans-Atlantic videoconferences, and cabled updates.

    John Prados: Reframing the Iraq War John Prados 2010

  • They are learning to collect and manipulate information on personal computers or what are known as clusters, where computer servers are cabled together to form a larger computer.

    Information Technology 2009

  • Oh, and I agree that cellis20 that, in #1, the cabled fence couldn't be electric - the rebar would just ground it out.

    Busting 10 Snake-Related Email Hoaxes 2009

  • They are learning to collect and manipulate information on personal computers or what are known as clusters, where computer servers are cabled together to form a larger computer.

    Science 2009

  • Here, with the Jew healing the breach with the wheat-farmer whose agents still cabled money, was the time to take advantage.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

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  • Another term used in heraldry.

    December 10, 2010