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cable up

cable up verb: to connect by inserting or installing a cable.

Verb

cable up (third-person singular simple present cables up, present participle cabling up, simple past and past participle cabled up)

  1. (transitive) To connect by inserting or installing a cable.
    • That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre, rather than on an obsolescent technology.1982, New Scientist, volume 96, number 1335, page 654

Forms of cable up

third-person singular presentcables up
present participlecabling up
past participlecabled up
pastcabled up

Questions about cable up

What does cable up mean?
Cable up means to connect by inserting or installing a cable.
What part of speech is cable up?
Cable up is a verb.
What is the past tense of cable up?
The past tense of cable up is cabled up.

Words near cable up in the dictionary

  1. cable tramway
  2. cable tramways
  3. cable tray
  4. cable trays
  5. cable TV
  6. cable up
  7. cable-actuated
  8. cable-car
  9. cable-cars
  10. cable-knit
  11. cable-lacing

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