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Wire   /wˈaɪər/  /waɪr/   Listen
Wire

noun
1.
Ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc.
2.
A metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance.  Synonym: conducting wire.
3.
The finishing line on a racetrack.
4.
A message transmitted by telegraph.  Synonym: telegram.
verb
(past & past part. wired; pres. part. wiring)
1.
Provide with electrical circuits.
2.
Send cables, wires, or telegrams.  Synonyms: cable, telegraph.
3.
Fasten with wire.
4.
String on a wire.
5.
Equip for use with electricity.  Synonym: electrify.



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"Wire" Quotes from Famous Books



... baited hook are also in common use. The Kayans make a hook of stout brass wire, cutting a single barb. The Kenyahs use a hook made of rattan thorns. A strip is cut from the surface of a rattan bearing two thorns about an inch apart; this is bent at its middle so that the cut surfaces of the two halves ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... next for him who second place of might and valour bare A mail-coat wove of polished rings with threefold wire of gold, Which from Demoleos the King had stripped in days of old, 260 A conqueror then by Simois swift beneath high-builded Troy, He giveth now that lord to have a safeguard and a joy; Its many folds his ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil

... Committee. Have them distributed all over town, and station men—men, mind you, not boys—with a supply just outside electioneering limits at each polling place. If the yarn spreads elsewhere in the district, wire our people ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... part, the lady seemed to await his coming. She gathered her countenance into an expression of as perfect unconcern as a little heightening of her colour would allow her, and returned his salute with rather a distant bow. But Mr Bunker was not to be damped by this hint of barbed wire. He held out his hand and exclaimed cordially, "My dear Lady Alicia! ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston

... Joctian, with his wife and daughter, paid me a visit, and asked for all they saw in the shape of beads and bracelets, but declined a knife as useless. They went away delighted with their presents. The women perforate the upper lip, and wear an ornament about four inches long of beads upon an iron wire; this projects like the horn of a rhinoceros; they are very ugly. The men are tall and powerful, armed with lances. They carry pipes that contain nearly a quarter of a pound of tobacco, in which they smoke simple charcoal should the loved tobacco fail. The ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker


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