Italian English Dictionary

italiano - English

filo in English:

1. wire wire


If you touch that wire, you'll get a shock.
Knowing how to hot wire a car may come in handy someday.
The hotel provided a wire in the bathroom for hanging wet clothes.
Let me know by wire.
But it's true! Dima insisted. "They won't let me buy the suit unless I give them another 99 kopeks! Can't you wire me some money?"
Wire me at once, in case there should be an accident.
When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.
It was evening and already dark but I saw a cat walking along a telephone wire. Can they do that, cats?
Wires transmit electricity / Should I cut the red wire or the green one?
I will keep this piece of wire. It might come in handy for repairing things.
Is this wire insulated?
This time, he had not forgotten his wire cutters.
Somebody wired my house. I want you to find out who.
barbed wire
Forgetting his key, he was able to open the door by inserting a wire in the key hole.

2. cable cable


I had cable TV installed last week.
The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.
Don't touch the cable.
I'd like to send a cable to Japan.
Mark bought eight metres of cable.
Every gadget comes with a cable to recharge it.
steel cable, cable television
The company broadcasts on satellite and cable.
Since he has had cable television installed, Mark watches it all day long.
Electric power is transmitted via underground cables.
Parents try not to think about it, hoping that if they blot the children out, the fateful call or cable will never come.
A submarine cable was laid between the two countries.
The boat was tied to the shore by a cable.
Cable boxes are more useful as places for cats to sleep than as entertainment machines.
Even this cable cost me 6000 yen.

English word "filo"(cable) occurs in sets:

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