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cable release

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📓 High School Level

noun Photography.

a device consisting of a flexible wire that is pressed at one end to trip a shutter mechanism on a camera.

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Origin of cable release

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby cable release

cablelaid, cable molding, cablephoto, cable railway, cable-ready, cable release, cable's length, cable-stayed bridge, cable-stitch, cablet, cable television

How to use cable release in a sentence

Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The United States government might not release that information for years, if ever.
Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He has secured the release of certain Spanish prisoners, and is building two ships.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The second cable quotes mine of last night wherein I ask leave to call for the East Lancs.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Neither of us has had a reply to his cable; instead, he has been told two enemy submarines are on their way to pay us a visit.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton

British Dictionary definitions for cable release

ðŸ““ High School Level

cable release

noun

a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it

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