cablecast
cablecast noun: a telecast via cable television.
Noun
cablecast (plural cablecasts)
- A telecast via cable television.
- The festival is produced collaboratively by several Boston-area public access communities, but it represents the collaboration of women around the world. Interviews, excerpts from submitted tapes, and live segments are combined for a five-hour live cablecast on International Women's Day in the...1989 December 17, Kelly Gaines, “International Women's Day Videos Sought”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 2
Verb
cablecast (third-person singular simple present cablecasts, present participle cablecasting, simple past and past participle cablecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) cablecasted)
- To originate a video and audio program by using a broadcast station or infrastructure focused on cable television operation.
- We will cablecast the final game on this station.
Adjective
cablecast (not comparable)
- broadcast via cable television
- Cablecast programs are as popular as many broadcast programs.
cablecast meaning in Tamil
cablecast in Tamil
- கம்பி வடக்காட்சிப் பரப்பல்
Forms of cablecast
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cablecasts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cablecasts |
| present participle | cablecasting |
| past participle | cablecast |
| past | cablecast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | cablecasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | cablecasted |
Origin of cablecast
From cable + -cast, from broadcast.
Questions about cablecast
- What does cablecast mean?
- Cablecast means a telecast via cable television.
- What is cablecast in Tamil?
- Cablecast in Tamil is கம்பி வடக்காட்சிப் பரப்பல். See Cablecast meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cablecast?
- Cablecast can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- What is the plural of cablecast?
- The plural of cablecast is cablecasts.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cablecast (page history and authors); cablecast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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