Difference between Cable and Wire

What is the difference between Cable and Wire?

Cable as a noun is a strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope. while Wire as a noun is metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

Cable

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope. An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated. A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship (communications) A system for receiving television or Internet service over coaxial or fibreoptic cables Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna A telegram, notably when send by (submarine) telegraph cable A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To provide with cable(s) To fasten (as if) with cable(s) To wrap wires to form a cable To send a telegram by cable To communicate by cable

Example sentence: When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.

Wire

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cableA metal conductor that carries electricity.A fence made of usually barbed wire.A finish line of a racetrack.A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegramA hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.A deadline or critical endpoint.A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.To string on a wire.To equip with wires for use with electricity.To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.To make someone tense or psyched-up.To install eavesdropping equipment.

Example sentence: Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

We hope you now know whether to use Cable or Wire in your sentence.

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