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Wired   /wˈaɪərd/  /waɪrd/   Listen
verb
Wire  v. t.  (past & past part. wired; pres. part. wiring)  
1.
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
2.
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
3.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
4.
To send (a message) by telegraph. (Colloq.)
5.
(Croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
6.
To equip with a system of wiring, especially for supply of electrical power or communication; as, to wire an office for networking the computers; to wire a building with 220-Volt current.
7.
To equip with an electronic system for eavesdropping; to bug; as, to wire the office of a mob boss; to wire an informant so as to record his conversations.


Wire  v. i.  
1.
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. (R.)
2.
To send a telegraphic message. (Colloq.)





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"Wired" Quotes from Famous Books



... to recommend me to John Deegan, I wired to myself from Philadelphia to New York, using "R. Callery's" name (without permission), I have the telegram, which was done by the House Printing Telegraph (in type on long strips, or tape, much like the present ticker tape). ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith
... with the car," he said with a forced matter-of-factness, "and let you know when there's any news. I've wired Buckhorn and sent word to Casa Grande—and we ought to get ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... results. Even the summer visitors from the States exhibited signs of excitement, yet they were skeptical of the chances of war; that is, war that would really affect us! My newspaper in Montreal wired for me to come down to do war cartoons and I left my father ...
— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene
... said, when you wired, you wanted the extra room to work in," he objected, "and you'll remember, Mr. Blair, that you were pretty emphatic about it, too, at the time. We went to all kinds of trouble to fix ...
— Their Mariposa Legend • Charlotte Herr
... rattled on the flagged path, supplied each word with emphasis. "However, it is no good talking, and I don't exactly know why I should put my old oar in. But the fact is I feel a certain responsibility. People here have been uncommonly civil. Well, well!—I've wired to-day to ask if there is a berth left in the Venetia for Saturday. And you, I suppose"—the inquiry was somewhat peremptory—"will be going back to ...
— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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