I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cable channel (= using signals sent through a wire )
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ABC announced its plans for a new cable channel.
cable car
cable modem
cable railway
cable television
cable/satellite TV
jumper cables
satellite/cable television
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They have a dish for satellite television.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The big cable company said it needed the rate increase to pay for past expenses and future investments.
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It coincided with a big cable show in Anaheim.
coaxial
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On signal-bearing computer leads, twisted-wire coaxial cables curb some types of interference.
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These providers depend on coaxial cable as transport roads and will help determine which broadband applications and services the viewing public prefers.
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That sort of thinking is now as obsolete as the coaxial cable .
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This has generated some confusing comparisons between the capability of optical fibre and coaxial cables .
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Cable television providers are either upgrading their coaxial cable or installing fiber optic links.
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Ethernet cables are very similar to television aerial coaxial cable.
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Cable systems traditionally use coaxial cable and a series of amplifiers throughout the distribution network.
electric
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Be careful to avoid walking on, or tripping over, electric cables .
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This consisted of one box with a battery connected to the thin electric cable that was also the ferret's line.
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If there are no electric cables , you can replace the fuses without worry.
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The water wheel was constructed from an electric cable spool.
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Only 20% of electric cables are buried beneath the streets in Tokyo, compared with 100% in London and Paris.
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Use only outdoor waterproof fittings for electric cables .
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The vehicles are modified Daimler Benz buses, powered by diesel engines or by overhead electric cables .
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They also abandoned thousands of miles of electric cables and water pipes to rot in the ground.
large
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I was representing a young boy who had been injured playing in the railroad yards on a large cable spool.
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Continental has 346, 000 subscribers throughout the region and is the largest cable operator in Los Angeles.
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According to one 1991 report, fifty-seven such programs were running in twenty-four of the hundred largest cable markets.
local
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A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel.
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Obviously, local newspapers, by definition, have more community identification than local cable systems and radio and television stations.
new
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In these cases a new cable is called for.
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The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.
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That same month, the corporation announced new high-speed cable and satellite services of the kind that Mercury plans to offer.
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Both could assume roles on the new cable network.
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A new gondola cable car will take you to dizzy heights, enabling you to appreciate the mountains in their true splendour.
optic
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He also seemed unaware of the great progress in laying fibre optic cable around the country, mainly between cities.
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Because fiber optic cable has a greater bandwidth capacity than coaxial cable, it can send more channels to subscribers' homes.
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If given the go-ahead, pictures from the wreck will be sent ashore by fibre optic cable to Liverpool by satellite.
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Experience suggests that the importance of fiber optic cable for international transmission is likely to grow.
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Katya braced herself and transferred her being over the fibre-\#optic cable .
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All the modules are linked using a redundant fibre optic cable .
overhead
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The section of line between Wilton and Lackenby would carry power from the generators to the main overhead cable via a sub-station.
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Oil slicks, overhead cables and pollution are all death traps for birds.
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The vehicles are modified Daimler Benz buses, powered by diesel engines or by overhead electric cables .
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Our worst experience was when a ladder we were moving from A to B hit an overhead cable .
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He claimed his research had shown links between high-voltage overhead cables and cancer clusters.
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The crane being used touched an eleven thousand volt overhead power cable .
underground
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Now it plans to use its underground cable network to offer customers a telephone service as well.
■ NOUN
car
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The Patscherkofel cable car is a stone's throw away, and the bus to Innsbruck stops nearby.
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These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.
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A trip by cable car or monorail gives the best view of the 180-acre site, four miles from Exmoor.
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The accidents, which involved streetcars and cable cars , caused $ 3. 6 million in damages and injured 10 people.
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It is centrally situated, and a ten minute walk from the cable car which leads to some magnificent mountain walks.
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Getting into the precarious cable car , the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.
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The lava had already damaged a tourist complex and put a cable car out of action.
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With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.
channel
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There are now 21 talk shows on daytime television; two cable channels run them around the clock.
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The show also runs on other cable channels .
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Only one in four cable channels managed to gain market share in prime time last year.
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A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel .
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His departure from Time Warner coincided with sluggish operating results at the cable channel .
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The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.
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Most basic cable channels have one or more fashion programs.
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There is an elite number of cable channels that reach the 70 million subscriber mark.
company
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For one thing, cable companies are ahead on certain technologies, such as digital compression.
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Soon after he does, phone and cable companies will follow through on long-held plans to broaden their offerings.
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He was joined by two fellow clerks from a cable company .
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On top of that, cable companies have developed a reputation over the years for less-than-stellar customer service.
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By comparison coaxial cable , of the type need to cable homes, will cost the cable company around 16p a metre.
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The big cable company said it needed the rate increase to pay for past expenses and future investments.
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The big question is whether other cable companies will follow pioneers such as Comcast.
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She expects other major cable companies will follow suit.
industry
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You would think then that the cable industry is well-positioned to elbow its way in to the Internet.
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Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry .
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The cable industry faces daunting technical challenges.
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A cable industry trade group said the technological exemption has not been clearly defined by legal tests.
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Alongside the sale of the television receivers themselves, a massive broadcast and cable industry has emerged.
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The Primestar satellite effort has put the cable industry in the odd position of competing against itself.
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The cable industry may find a technical nightmare on its hands coupled with huge expenditures and potential losses.
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People in the cable industry corroborate these findings.
modem
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This includes rental of a cable modem .
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Check to make sure you meet the minimum requirements for using a cable modem .
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Home plans to get its first batch of cable modems from Motorola.
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It reiterated that it will work with other cable modem makers, noting that 3Com Corp. will enter the market.
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The development of cable modems is also in its infancy.
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A cable modem comes as part of the service.
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I've found this to be the case-more often than not-with my cable modem service.
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I have seen the future and it is a cable modem .
network
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The growth of cable networks is even more of a threat.
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Another characteristic of the industry is that larger MSOs often may have financial interests in cable networks and programming they carry.
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When he ran a small cable network in San Francisco, Hindery refused to carry the sport.
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U S West also has its own cable network in Atlanta.
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Now it plans to use its underground cable network to offer customers a telephone service as well.
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Philips said it took the stake as part of its policy to expand in the new electronic media and cable networks .
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
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Both could assume roles on the new cable network .
news
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Some of this decline is attributed to competition from cable news channels and from local news broadcasts.
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The shoddy performance of the networks and cable news channels is indefensible.
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The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels.
operator
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On something of a buying binge lately and snapping up smaller cable operators , Cogeco is itself seen as a takeover target.
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This constraint will fade over the next few years as more cable operators upgrade their systems and add more services.
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Continental has 346, 000 subscribers throughout the region and is the largest cable operator in Los Angeles.
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And cable operators are doing all they can to get the government to prevent phone companies from carrying video programming.
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Discussions are being held with a major cable operator .
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A cable system has two types of customers-advertisers and consumers who subscribe to a package of programming offered by the cable operator .
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Eye on People is struggling to persuade cable operators to carry it.
pattern
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This will give you enough width to work on more than one cable pattern at a time.
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Once you have stocking stitch between simple lace strips you can transfer the stocking stitches to make a narrow cable pattern also.
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You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern .
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The squares of cable patterns can also be used attractively with squares of plain stocking stitch placed alternately.
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Above we have a neat little cable pattern that is useful as a simple interruption of stocking stitch along a complete garment.
power
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It's not been proved that children living near power cables are more likely to develop leukaemia.
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A power cable stretches from a socket in the wall into the bathroom. that's interesting.
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You look again at that power cable .
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Plug in the monitor, keyboard and mains power cables and switch on.
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But it wasn't a telephone cable , it was a power cable carrying 11,000 volts.
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Take care to keep the power cable out of the path of electric mowers.
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The effect of the burning power cables was to send much of the instrumentation around the reactor into confusion.
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The crane being used touched an eleven thousand volt overhead power cable .
programme
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The same provision is made for words spoken on a cable programme .
service
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Price cuts of 10% on basic cable services are already being imposed.
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For March, Viacom raised its standard cable service rate 32.
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Black Entertainment Television, though only available through cable services , reaches about 40 million homes.
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Bundling phone and cable service to its Bay Area customers is a major strategic goal.
subscriber
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The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
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Only 10 to 15 percent of cable subscribers currently are served by the kind of infrastructure required to support the Home operation.
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Almost 95 percent of cable subscribers have access to 30-54 channels, while 35 percent of subscribers receive 54 or more channels.
system
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The cable system which united the world was already almost complete by 1880; its completion made world prices a reality.
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Migration from an existing cable system is relatively straight forward.
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This percentage is likely to decrease as a result of improvements in cable systems .
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Cable operators will be able to download software through the cable system into the set-tops.
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He says the city wants to establish a citywide internet connection through the cable system .
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A cable system has two types of customers-advertisers and consumers who subscribe to a package of programming offered by the cable operator.
television
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The first is to lay around 100 miles of cable television and telephone duct in Edinburgh for United Artists.
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Telephone companies may also begin to provide cable television and other video services.
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A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now under way to bring cable television to every house in Britain.
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But it will give affluent viewers a foretaste of life with cable television .
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The day the City of Tucson awarded the first municipal cable television contract to Cox Cable.
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I was doing a senior thesis in college on cable television economic law and all the regulations related thereto.
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A coalition of cable television and long-distance carriers predicts it will take until next spring.
■ VERB
connect
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Then connect the cable cores to the faceplate and attach it as before.
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Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.
include
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This includes rental of a cable modem.
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Scientists tested 131 products, including toys, video cables , phone cords, place mats and other household items.
lay
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The modern purpose-built vessel which operates from Southampton, is used to lay and repair subsea cable .
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A submarine would have to lay a long cable right alongside the commercial cable and then pick up the traffic by induction.
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He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor.
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To double the number you just lay another cable alongside the first.
offer
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Within nine months, he said, the company will offer 125-channel cable on its wireless services.
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A cable system has two types of customers-advertisers and consumers who subscribe to a package of programming offered by the cable operator.
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Government policy should not undermine free broadcasting in favor of pay services offered by cable , phone and satellite companies.
provide
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Telephone companies may also begin to provide cable television and other video services.
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Larger cities would see regulations lifted by at least 1999, or sooner if the telephone companies start providing cable television.
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The bandwidth provided by cable will allow customer connections to the Internet at speeds greater than those provided by telephone company facilities.
run
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The winch man was running out the cable , allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
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The show also runs on other cable channels.
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Then run in the spur cable and fit the new socket as before.
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It will raise an antenna and run a cable from the truck to a camera to record pictures of the burning building.
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Alongside, or occasionally entwined with the bones, ran the army telegraph cable !
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Their video-age medicine shows run on dozens of cable and broadcast outlets in the wee hours.
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When he ran a small cable network in San Francisco, Hindery refused to carry the sport.
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When working with a hedge trimmer, run the supply cable over one shoulder well away from the blades.
use
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Today, semaphore signalling is still used at sea, where it is impossible to use wires or cable for communication.
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Check to make sure you meet the minimum requirements for using a cable modem.
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And now the White Paper clears the way for these to be used by cable stations.
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Cable systems traditionally use coaxial cable and a series of amplifiers throughout the distribution network.
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The earliest form of submarine cable telegraphy: manual simplex working using a cable code key.
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They become illegal only when they are used to defraud cable companies.
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Now it plans to use its underground cable network to offer customers a telephone service as well.
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The Democracy Network would use cable , telephone, television, and computer transmissions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high-tension wires/cables etc
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Take the walk along the Humber Bridge with the wind nagging the high-tension cables.
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The Kinner field almost qualified; it had two sets of high-tension wires on its eastern perimeter.
lay bricks/carpet/concrete/cables etc
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Compact the base, then lay concrete, using a 1 cement to 5 parts ballast mix.
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During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.
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Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.
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Why didn't he lay concrete you ask?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cable channel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cable operators will be able to download software through the cable system into the set-tops.
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Additionally, it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain.
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During the war, obtaining cable traffic presented no problem because of mandatory cable censorship.
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I wonder if an old John Wayne movie is showing on cable ?
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It is convenient to the railway station and only a 10 minute walk from the Schilthorn cable car.
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She set off to walk a mile to the mountain cable car on Wednesday.
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Their video-age medicine shows run on dozens of cable and broadcast outlets in the wee hours.
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This was done by cable to Parastaev, who by then was back in Moscow as general-secretary of the Society.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
network
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He brought together the network , cable , local affiliates and studio executives and helped broker the agreement for voluntary ratings.
service
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Satellite is more established because there cable companies take the service from the satellite and pipe it to customers.
television
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high-tension wires/cables etc
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Take the walk along the Humber Bridge with the wind nagging the high-tension cables.
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The Kinner field almost qualified; it had two sets of high-tension wires on its eastern perimeter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She cabled her parents and told them she was going to the Salvation Army College in London.