Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of cable is as below...

Crown :: Crown (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.

Scope :: Scope (n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable..

Modificable :: Modificable (a.) Modifiable.

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Tractable :: Tractable (v. t.) Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures..

Hawser-laid :: Hawser-laid (a.) Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage..

Impeccable :: Impeccable (a.) Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.

Unplacable :: Unplacable (a.) Implacable.

Practicable :: Practicable (a.) That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good..

Applicancy :: Applicancy (n.) The quality or state of being applicable.

Gable :: Gable (n.) A cable.

Crank :: Crank (n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

Pacifiable :: Pacifiable (a.) Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

Sheet Cable :: Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

Imparlance :: Imparlance (n.) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party..

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Round :: Round (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass..

Cablegram :: Cablegram (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

Placable :: Placable (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.

Inexplicableness :: Inexplicableness (n.) A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.

Random Fonts

Most Popular