## Meanings
1. A set of wires covered in plastic that carries electricity or signals.
2. A thick, strong rope made of twisted wire or fibre.
3. A television service that sends programmes through cables.
4. To send a message by telegraph, especially overseas.

## Examples
- Did you put a cable in the wall for the new TV?
- The cable that held up the bridge was over a metre thick.
- We watched a movie on cable last night.
- He cabled a short message across the Atlantic.

## Derived Forms
- anticable
- cable-actuated
- cable-car
- cable-knit
- cable-lacing
- cable-laid
- cable-ready
- cablecar
- cablecast
- cablegami
- cablegate
- cablegram

## Related Forms
- cablet

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kap-
- Root: cable
- Root: capulum
- Root: capiō

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Cable is 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.

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