Wire

[waɪə] or ['waɪɚ]

Definition

(noun.) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc.

(noun.) a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance.

(noun.) the finishing line on a racetrack.

(verb.) fasten with wire; 'The columns were wired to the beams for support'.

(verb.) string on a wire; 'wire beads'.

(verb.) provide with electrical circuits; 'wire the addition to the house'.

Typed by Jerry--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

(n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

(v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

(v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

(v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.

(v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.

(v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

(v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

Edited by Antony

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Metallic thread.

v. a. [1]. Put upon a wire.[2]. Bind with wire.[3]. Ensnare by wires.[4]. [Modern.] Telegraph, convey by electric telegraph, report by telegram.

Typist: Sophie

Definition

n. a thread of metal: the metal thread used in telegraphy &c.: the string of an instrument: the slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds: a telegram: (slang) a clever pickpocket: (Shak.) the lash scourge.—adj. formed of wire.—v.t. to bind snare or supply with wire: to keep the ends of a broken bone together with wire: to send by telegraph.—v.i. to telegraph.—n. Wire′-bridge a suspension-bridge.—adj. Wired having wiry feathers.—n. Wire′-dan′cer a performer on a tight wire.—v.t. Wire′-draw to draw into wire: to draw or spin out to a great length: to strain or stretch the meaning of anything.—ns. Wire′drawer; Wire′drawing.—adj. Wire′drawn spun out into needless fine distinctions.—ns. Wire′-gauze a kind of stiff close fabric made of fine wire; Wire′-grass a kind of fine meadow-grass; Wire′-guard wire-netting placed in front of a fire; Wire′-heel a defect or disease of the foot; Wire′-man one who puts up or takes care of wires; Wire′-net′ting Wire′work a texture of wire woven in the form of a net; Wire′-pull′er one who exercises an influence felt but not seen as if the actors were his puppets and he pulled the wires that move them: an intriguer; Wire′-pull′ing; Wī′rer a snarer; Wire′-rope a rope of twisted iron or steel.—adj. Wire′-sewed -stitched sewed with wire instead of thread.—ns. Wire′way transportation by means of wires; Wire′work articles made of wire; Wire′worker; Wire′working; Wire′-worm a name given to the larv?of click-beetles from their slenderness and uncommon hardness very injurious to root grain and fodder crops.—adj. Wire′wove denoting a fine glazed quality of writing-paper.—adv. Wī′rily.—n. Wī′riness the state of being wiry.—adj. Wī′ry made of or like wire: flexible and strong.—Wire away or in to act with vigour.—Pull the wires (see Wire-puller above).

Typist: Moira