How to distinguish between wires and cables?

(1) wire is made up of one or several soft conductors outside package with soft sheath; cable is made up of one or several insulated conductors, out packages to the tough outer layer of metal or rubber.

Cables and wires are generally consist of core wire, insulated and protected the outer skin made up of three components.

(2) smaller in diameter called "line"; large-diameter called "cable".

 (3) simple structure called "line"; complex structure called the "lead". However, with the expansion of the use of, many varieties of "wire cable", "cable in the cable".

So there's no need to strictly separate. On the daily habit, people call domestic wire cloth wire, referred to as cable power cable.