Editura Global Info / Dicţionar englez-român |
CABLE
Pronunție (USA): | (GB): |
Traducere în limba română
cable I. substantiv
1. cablu, pălimar, funie groasă.
2. (mar.) cablu, parâmă, odgon, lanţ;
to bend a cable a lega un cablu la ancoră;
to pay out more cable a fila lanţ;
how does the cable grow? încotro se întinde lanţul?
to slip the cable a filarisi lanţul;
(sl.) to cut / to slip one’s cable a da ortul popii, a o mierli.
3. (şi cable (‘s) length) (mar.) cablu, ancablură (=185 m; amer. = 219 m).
4. cablogramă; telegramă; ştire (transmisă prin cablu).
cable II. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a întări / a fixa cu un cablu, cu o funie etc.
2. a telegrafia, a transmite prin telegraf; a expedia (cuiva) o cablogramă.
cable II. verb B. intranzitiv
a telegrafia (prin cablu); a trimite o telegramă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Then, when the cable came, I knew they were bound to make a move.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then he wrote a long telegram upon a cable form.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What cable?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)