wire
see also: Wire
Etymology
Wire
Proper noun
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see also: Wire
Etymology
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr, from Proto-Germanic *wīraz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros, from *weh₁y- ("to turn, twist, weave, plait").
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /waɪə(ɹ)/
- (US) enPR: wīʹər, wīr, IPA: /ˈwaɪɚ/
- (Canada) IPA: /waɪ(ə)ɹ/, /wʌɪ(ə)ɹ/
- (Ontario) IPA: [wäɪɚ], [wəɪɚ]
wire
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- The episode began by a telephone ring in the morning and the voice of Algernon Mailey at the far end of the wire.
(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram. - c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC ↗, Act 1:
- Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." [Telephone rings.] Hello! This is the Central Office. Yes. Certainly. Well, send them a wire. Good. [Hangs up telephone.] Where did I leave off?
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- This election is going to go right to the wire
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (usually, in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- to pull the wires for office
- (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- (thin thread of metal) cable, steel wire, thread
- (metal conductor that carries electricity) conducting wire
- (fencing made of usually barbed wire) barbed wire
- (informal: telegraph) See telegraph
- (informal: message transmitted by telegraph) See telegram
- (object used to keep the score in billiards) score string
- French: fil
- German: Draht
- Italian: filo, filo metallico
- Portuguese: arame
- Russian: про́волока
- Spanish: alambre, hilo
- German: Draht, Ader
- Italian: filo elettrico, cavo, cavo elettrico
- Portuguese: fio
- Russian: про́вод
- Spanish: cable
- Italian: filo spinato
wire (wires, present participle wiring; simple past and past participle wired)
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- We need to wire that hole in the fence.
- To string on a wire.
- wire beads
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- Do you know how to wire a plug?
- To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 25 ↗:
- “‘Cept I do hurt people sometimes, Case. I guess it's just the way I'm wired.”
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
- The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
- 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- We wired the suspect's house.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- (equip for use with electricity) electrify
- (informal: send a message or funds by telecommunications) cable, telegraph
- (antonym(s) of “to fasten with wire”): unwire
- Italian: fissare con filo metallico
- Italian: infilzare
- Italian: stendere fili elettrici, installare impianto elettrico, elettrificare
- Italian: collegare tramite cavo
- German: Geld überweisen
- Italian: telegrafare
- Italian: installare microspie
Wire
Proper noun
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