| 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 |
DIP switch
dual inline package switch | (computer science) one of a set of small on-off switches mounted in computer hardware, used in place of jumpers to configure the machine for a user |
divided highway
dual carriageway | a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions, in Britain they call a divided highway a dual carriageway |
| dual scan display | a type of passive matrix display in which the top and bottom half of the screen are refreshed simultaneously |
| 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 |
cable
cable length
cable's length | a nautical unit of depth |
cable
telegraph
wire | send cables, wires, or telegrams |
| cable | fasten with a cable, cable trees |
| dual | a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural), ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek |
double dual
duple | consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs, an egg with a double yolk, a double (binary) star, double doors, dual controls for pilot and copilot, duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure |
| double dual twofold two-fold treble threefold three-fold | having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities, a double (or dual) role for an actor, the office of a clergyman is twofold, public preaching and private influence- R.W.Emerson, every episode has its double and treble meaning-Frederick Harrison |
divided
dual-lane | having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions, a divided highway |