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- (US) The system of cables that supports a cable car.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
- (Victoria, formal) A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.
- the track on which trams or streetcars run
- a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
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- (US) An aerial cable car.
- (US, rail transport) A people mover.
- A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
- (Australia, British, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
- (British, historical) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
- (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
- (weaving) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
- a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
- a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine
verb
- (weaving) To weave in this manner.
- (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.
- (intransitive) To travel by tram.
- (US, transitive) To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the spindle of a mill or drill press, as historically accomplished using a trammel.
- (intransitive) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
- travel by tram
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- Initialism of Doppelmayr Cable Car.
- Initialism of Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse.
- Design Computing and Cognition.
- Data Compression Conference.
- Debian Cluster Components.
- Digital Content Creation.
- Direct Client-to-Client.
- Data Concentrator Card.
- Designing Correct Circuits.
- Data and Computer Communications.
- Digital Command Control.
- Digital Curation Centre.
- Digital Compact Cassette.
- Data Communications Committee.
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- Initialism of direct cable connection.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.
- (psychotherapy) Initialism of direct client contact.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of deputy chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (algebra) Initialism of descending chain condition.
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- An apparatus attached to a car (e.g., cable car, funicular car, mine car) for clutching a traction cable.
- (graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
- A medium-sized bag or holdall for one's belongings, made of soft leather, canvas etc., and carried in the hand by two handles, one either side of the opening.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
- (figurative) Someone who is helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring.
- (uncountable) Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of pistol grip.
- (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
- (figurative) Control, power, or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A device, or a portion of one, that grasps or holds fast to something.
- A place to grip; a handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.
- (figurative) Assistance; help; encouragement.
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.
- (figurative) Mental grasp.
- (film or television production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place
- an intellectual hold or understanding
- the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- the act of grasping
- worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
verb
- (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.
- (transitive or intransitive) To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
- (dialectal) To trench; to drain.
- (transitive) To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
- (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
- hold fast or firmly
- to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
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- Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- (US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
- A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.
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- A special railroad car for transporting automobiles.
- A special semi-trailer for transporting automobiles.
- A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation.
- a trailer that can be loaded with new cars for delivery to sales agencies
- a cargo ship specially fitted for the transport of large quantities of cars.
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- a television system that transmits over cables
- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- a nautical unit of depth
- a telegram sent abroad
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
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- fasten with a cable
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
- (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
- (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
- (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
- (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
noun
- a television system that transmits over cables
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.
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- a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
- A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
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- An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
- A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; An end bay; A parasite display.
- (rail transport, US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
- A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof
- long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice
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- A cabless railroad engine.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
noun
- cable used to distribute electricity
- An electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.
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- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (British) A hand truck.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- (British) A soapbox car.
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
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- (transport) A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or (metonymic) the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- (geometry) The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces. It is described by the hyperbolic cosine function.
- (engineering) Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
- (nautical) The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points
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- A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
- (by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not wireless/mobile.
- (attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).
- a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
verb
- haul by railroad car
- bring into alignment with
- support on the back and shoulders
- ride on someone's shoulders or back
- haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
- (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
- (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- (transitive) To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
- (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
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- automobile
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
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- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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- (UK, Ireland) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- (especially in the plural, sometimes controversial) A person (see usage notes).
- (colloquial) Thing, item (term that can be used to refer to any entity)
- (informal, term of address) dude, Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- (colloquial) Anything seen to have character and personality, such as an animal or a toy.
- (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- (colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
- a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
- an informal term for a youth or man
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- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a coverall worn by children
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
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- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
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- (rail transport, road transport) An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
- (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
- (Philippines) A jump wire.
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
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- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
- where passengers ride up and down
- A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
- (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
- (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
- (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
- The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
- (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.
- (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
- (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
- A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
- (Internet, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of cat.
- The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
- (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
- The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
- A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
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- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
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- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
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- A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.
- A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.
- An instance of soaring upward.
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- (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
- (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
- (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
- (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
- The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
- (photography) An item upon which television cameras are mounted.
- (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
- (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- a support or foundation
- an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
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- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
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- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
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- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
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- (US) The system of cables that supports a cable car.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.
- (Victoria, formal) A lane of a road or street, in which tram tracks are embedded, that is (in normal circumstances) for the exclusive use of trams and public buses.
- the track on which trams or streetcars run
- a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
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- (US) An aerial cable car.
- (US, rail transport) A people mover.
- A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
- (Australia, British, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar or trolley in North America).
- (British, historical) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
- (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
- (weaving) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
- a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
- a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine
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- (weaving) To weave in this manner.
- (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.
- (intransitive) To travel by tram.
- (US, transitive) To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the spindle of a mill or drill press, as historically accomplished using a trammel.
- (intransitive) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
- travel by tram
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- An apparatus attached to a car (e.g., cable car, funicular car, mine car) for clutching a traction cable.
- (graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
- A medium-sized bag or holdall for one's belongings, made of soft leather, canvas etc., and carried in the hand by two handles, one either side of the opening.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
- (figurative) Someone who is helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring.
- (uncountable) Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of pistol grip.
- (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
- (figurative) Control, power, or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A device, or a portion of one, that grasps or holds fast to something.
- A place to grip; a handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.
- (figurative) Assistance; help; encouragement.
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.
- (figurative) Mental grasp.
- (film or television production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place
- an intellectual hold or understanding
- the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)
- the act of grasping
- worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
verb
- (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.
- (transitive or intransitive) To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
- (dialectal) To trench; to drain.
- (transitive) To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
- (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
- hold fast or firmly
- to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
noun
- Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- (US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
- A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.
noun
- A special railroad car for transporting automobiles.
- A special semi-trailer for transporting automobiles.
- A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation.
- a trailer that can be loaded with new cars for delivery to sales agencies
- a cargo ship specially fitted for the transport of large quantities of cars.
noun
- a television system that transmits over cables
- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- a nautical unit of depth
- a telegram sent abroad
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
verb
- fasten with a cable
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
- (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
- (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
- (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
- (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
noun
- a television system that transmits over cables
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.
noun
- An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
- A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; An end bay; A parasite display.
- (rail transport, US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
- A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof
- long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice
verb
noun
- A cabless railroad engine.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
noun
- cable used to distribute electricity
- An electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.
noun
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (British) A hand truck.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- (British) A soapbox car.
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
verb
noun
noun
- (transport) A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or (metonymic) the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- (geometry) The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces. It is described by the hyperbolic cosine function.
- (engineering) Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
- (nautical) The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points
adj
noun
- A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
- (by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not wireless/mobile.
- (attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).
- a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
name
- Initialism of Doppelmayr Cable Car.
- Initialism of Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse.
- Design Computing and Cognition.
- Data Compression Conference.
- Debian Cluster Components.
- Digital Content Creation.
- Direct Client-to-Client.
- Data Concentrator Card.
- Designing Correct Circuits.
- Data and Computer Communications.
- Digital Command Control.
- Digital Curation Centre.
- Digital Compact Cassette.
- Data Communications Committee.
noun
- Initialism of direct cable connection.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.
- (psychotherapy) Initialism of direct client contact.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of deputy chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (algebra) Initialism of descending chain condition.
noun
- automobile
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
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verb
noun
- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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phrase
noun
- (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
- A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) A woollen sweater or pullover.
- (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- (usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.
- (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
- (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
- Ellipsis of smokejumper.
- A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
- (video games) A platform game based around jumping.
- A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- (horology) A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
- A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- (US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
- (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
- The larva of the cheese fly.
- (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump
- an athlete who competes at jumping
- a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
- a coverall worn by children
- a person who jumps
- a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections
- a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body
verb
noun
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
verb
noun
- (rail transport, road transport) An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
- (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
- (Philippines) A jump wire.
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
noun
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
- where passengers ride up and down
- A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
- (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
- (uncountable, US, informal) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
- (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
- The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
- (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train, used to hold either passengers or cargo.
- (US, prison slang) A clique or gang.
- (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
- A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
- (Internet, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of cat.
- The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
- (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
- The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
- A similar vehicle used in special contexts, such as mines, quarries, and mills.
noun
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
adj
adv
verb
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
noun
- A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.
- A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.
- An instance of soaring upward.
noun
- (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
- (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
- (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
- (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
- The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
- (photography) An item upon which television cameras are mounted.
- (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
- (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- a support or foundation
- an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
verb
noun
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
adj
verb
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
noun
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
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adj
noun
- a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
- A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
verb
- haul by railroad car
- bring into alignment with
- support on the back and shoulders
- ride on someone's shoulders or back
- haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
- (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
- (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- (transitive) To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
- (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
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adv
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- (UK, Ireland) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- (especially in the plural, sometimes controversial) A person (see usage notes).
- (colloquial) Thing, item (term that can be used to refer to any entity)
- (informal, term of address) dude, Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- (colloquial) Anything seen to have character and personality, such as an animal or a toy.
- (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- (colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
- a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
- an informal term for a youth or man
noun
- a television system that transmits over cables
- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- a nautical unit of depth
- a telegram sent abroad
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
verb
- fasten with a cable
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
- (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
- (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
- (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
- (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
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adj
noun
- a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
- A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.