Meaning

3 senses
  1. A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.

  2. A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.

  3. A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Cable boxes are more useful as places for cats to sleep than as entertainment machines.

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  2. The spinal cord is protected by the spinal column like a delicate cable in a box.

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Forms

plural: cable boxes
Singularcable box
Pluralcable boxes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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