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Word Meanings - CABLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

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  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • CABLEGRAM
    A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
  • CIRCUMFERENCE
    1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon. 2. A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. The external
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • CABLET
    A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
  • INCHEST
    To put into a chest.
  • CABLE
    A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the
  • CABLELAID
    Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable. 2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.
  • CABLED
    Adorned with cabling. (more info) 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.
  • LITTLE
    place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • VOCABLE
    A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
  • UNPLACABLE
    Implacable.
  • PROGNOSTICABLE
    Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMMEDICABLE
    Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
  • INEXPLICABLE
    Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
  • MULTIPLICABLE
    Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
  • ERADICABLE
    Capable of being eradicated.
  • PECCABLE
    Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
  • IMPACABLE
    Not to be appeased or quieted. Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.
  • DESPICABLE
    Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
  • DO-LITTLE
    One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
  • MASTICABLE
    Capable of being masticated.
  • VITRIFICABLE
    Vitrifiable.
  • MERCABLE
    Capable of being bought or sold.
  • PACABLE
    Placable. Coleridge.
  • REVOCABLE
    Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
  • INJUDICABLE
    Not cognizable by a judge. Bailey.
  • TRAFFICABLE
    Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.

 

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