C ableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Recorded since c.1205 as 中期英語 cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkeɪ.bəl/
• 韻: -eɪbəl

名詞

cable (plural cables)

1. (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
   1. A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

      Synonyms: wire rope, cord; see also Thesaurus:string

   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. (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.

      Coordinate term: hawser

      • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

        “And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.

2. (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

   I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist‎, volume 410, number 8878:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […] . Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

   1. (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
3. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

   Synonym: cablegram

4. (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

   Synonym: cable length

5. (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
6. (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
7. (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
8. (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.

派生語

関連する語

• cablet

動詞

cable (third-person singular simple present cables, present participle cabling, simple past and past participle cabled)

1. (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
2. (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
3. (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
4. (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:

     Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.

   • 1972, John Casson, “‘When We Are Old, Are Old’”, in Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 320:

     On 8th November Anthony cabled them, ‘Your great-grandson Randal Lewis Casson arrived to-day. Both well,’ and we sent, ‘Congratulations on becoming great-grandparents.’

5. (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
6. (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
7. (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
   • 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:

     You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

アナグラム

• Caleb

語源

Borrowed from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkaːbəl/, /ˈkaːblə/

名詞

cable (plural cables or kablen)

1. A cable or strong rope (as used in nautical applications)
2. Any kind of rope or cable; a supporting wire.

派生した語

• English: cable
• Scots: cable
• → Middle Irish: cábla
  • Irish: cábla
  • Manx: caabley, caabyl
  • Scottish Gaelic: càball

参照

• “cāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.