Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cable
Participle: cabled
Gerund: cabling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cable |
| you | cable |
| he;she;it | cables |
| we | cable |
| you | cable |
| they | cable |
Perfect
| I | have cabled |
| you | have cabled |
| he;she;it | has cabled |
| we | have cabled |
| you | have cabled |
| they | have cabled |
Past
| I | cabled |
| you | cabled |
| he;she;it | cabled |
| we | cabled |
| you | cabled |
| they | cabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cabled |
| you | had cabled |
| he;she;it | had cabled |
| we | had cabled |
| you | had cabled |
| they | had cabled |
Future
| I | will cable |
| you | will cable |
| he;she;it | will cable |
| we | will cable |
| you | will cable |
| they | will cable |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cabled |
| you | will have cabled |
| he;she;it | will have cabled |
| we | will have cabled |
| you | will have cabled |
| they | will have cabled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cable |
| you | cable |
| he;she;it | cable |
| we | cable |
| you | cable |
| they | cable |
Perfect
| I | have cabled |
| you | have cabled |
| he;she;it | have cabled |
| we | have cabled |
| you | have cabled |
| they | have cabled |
Imperfect
| I | cabled |
| you | cabled |
| he;she;it | cabled |
| we | cabled |
| you | cabled |
| they | cabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had cabled |
| you | had cabled |
| he;she;it | had cabled |
| we | had cabled |
| you | had cabled |
| they | had cabled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cable |
| you | would cable |
| he;she;it | would cable |
| we | would cable |
| you | would cable |
| they | would cable |
Perfect
| I | would have cabled |
| you | would have cabled |
| he;she;it | would have cabled |
| we | would have cabled |
| you | would have cabled |
| they | would have cabled |
Imperative
| you | cable |
| we | Let's cable |
| you | cable |
Verbs conjugated like 'cable'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cable'
able,
dable,
fable,
table,
accable,
amble,
babble,
bale,
cab,
cabal,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- informal: send a message or funds by telecommunications
- telegraph, wire
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1205, from O.N.Fr., from M.L.
capulum "lasso, rope, halter," from L.
capere "to take, seize" (see capable). Technically, in nautical use, a rope 10 or more inches around (smaller ones being
hawsers); in non-nautical use, a rope of wire (not hemp or fiber). Meaning "message received by telegraphic cable" is from 1883.
Cablese is from 1895: "Since cablegrams had to be paid for by the word and even press rates were expensive the practice was to affix Latin prefixes and suffixes to make one word do the work of several" [Daniel Schorr].
Cable car is from 1887.
Cable television first attested 1963; shortened form
cable is from 1972.
2. Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English 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. See: Latin '
capiō'.
Sample Sentences
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Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world. [1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:]
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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.’ [1972, John Casson, “‘When We Are Old, Are Old’”, in Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 320:]
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You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard. [2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:]