1) Petroleum production 
[cabling] In the oil and gas industry, the term wireline usually refers to a cabling technology used by operators of oil and gas wells to lower equipment or measurement devices into the well for the purposes of well intervention, reservoir evaluation, and pipe recovery. Tools inserted into the well for both workover and logging efforts, wir...
a small-diameter metal line used in wireline operations. Also called slick line. Compare conductor line.