Cable vs. DSL — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cable and DSL
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Cable
A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope.
Dsl
Any of various technologies used to create high-bandwidth network connections over standard telephone lines, often in providing internet service to homes.
Cable
Something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.
Dsl
A generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
Cable
(Electricity) A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.
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Cable
A sheathed bundle of optical fibers.
Cable
A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship.
Cable
A cable length.
Cable
Cable television.
Cable
A similar service providing internet access.
Cable
A cablegram.
Cable
Of or relating to a subscription television or internet service that uses cables to carry signals between local distribution antennas and the subscriber's location.
Cable
To send a cablegram to.
Cable
To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
Cable
To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.
Cable
To send a cablegram.
Cable
(material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
Cable
A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
Cable
An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
Cable
An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
Cable
(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
Cable
(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.
Cable
(TV) cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
Cable
A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
Cable
(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
Cable
100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
Cable
(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
Cable
(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
Cable
(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
Cable
(transitive) To provide with cable(s)
Cable
(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
Cable
(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable
Cable
(transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable
Cable
(intransitive) To communicate by cable
Cable
To ornament with cabling.
Cable
(knitting) To create cable stitches.
Cable
A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
Cable
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
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.
Cable
To fasten with a cable.
Cable
To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
Cable
To telegraph by a submarine cable
Cable
A telegram sent abroad
Cable
A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
Cable
A very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
Cable
A nautical unit of depth
Cable
Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
Cable
A television system transmitted over cables
Cable
Send cables, wires, or telegrams
Cable
Fasten with a cable;
Cable trees
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