CABLE

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Traducere în limba română

cable I. substantiv

1. cablu, pălimar, funie groasă.

2. (mar.) cablu, parâmă, odgon, lanţ;

to bend a cable a lega un cablu la ancoră;

to pay out more cable a fila lanţ;

how does the cable grow? încotro se întinde lanţul?

to slip the cable a filarisi lanţul;

(sl.) to cut / to slip one’s cable a da ortul popii, a o mierli.

3. (şi cable (‘s) length) (mar.) cablu, ancablură (=185 m; amer. = 219 m).

4. cablogramă; telegramă; ştire (transmisă prin cablu).

cable II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a întări / a fixa cu un cablu, cu o funie etc.

2. a telegrafia, a transmite prin telegraf; a expedia (cuiva) o cablogramă.

cable II. verb B. intranzitiv

a telegrafia (prin cablu); a trimite o telegramă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then, when the cable came, I knew they were bound to make a move.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then he wrote a long telegram upon a cable form.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What cable?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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