Helix genus Helix | type genus of the family Helicidae |
edible snail Helix pomatia | one of the chief edible snails |
brown snail Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
Helix hortensis | a kind of garden snail |
cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable coax coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
coil spiral volute whorl helix | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops, a coil of rope |
electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy guy cable guy wire guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable jumper lead lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
power line power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
tramway tram aerial tramway cable tramway ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
cable cablegram overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
ivy common ivy English ivy Hedera helix | Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits |
cable cable length cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
helix spiral | a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle |
double helix | a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, the shape of the DNA molecule is a double helix |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
cable telegraph wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
cable | fasten with a cable, cable trees |