Definitions for wire

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wire wire

Spelling: [wahyuh r]

IPA: /waɪər/

Wire is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in wire (eirw).

Definitions for wire

noun

1. a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
2. such pieces as a material.
3. a length of such material, consisting either of a single filament or of several filaments woven or twisted together and usually insulated with a dielectric material, used as a conductor of electricity.
4. a cross wire or a cross hair.
5. a barbed-wire fence.
6. a long wire or cable used in cable, telegraph, or telephone systems.
7. Nautical. a wire rope.
8. Informal. a telegram. the telegraphic system:
9. wires, a system of wires by which puppets are moved.
10. a metallic string of a musical instrument.
11. Underworld Slang. the member of a pickpocket team who picks the victim's pocket. Compare stall2 (def 5).
12. Horse Racing. a wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line, under which the horses pass.
13. Ornithology. one of the extremely long, slender, wirelike filaments or shafts of the plumage of various birds.
14. a metal device for snaring rabbits and other small game.
15. Papermaking. the woven wire mesh over which the wet pulp is spread in a papermaking machine.
16. the wire, the telephone:

Idioms

1. down to the wire, to the very last moment or the very end, as in a race or competition:
2. pull wires, Informal. to use one's position or influence to obtain a desired result:
3. under the wire, just within the limit or deadline; scarcely; barely:

adjective

1. made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
2. resembling wire; wirelike.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with wires.
2. to install an electric system of wiring in, as for lighting.
3. to fasten or bind with wire:
4. to put on a wire, as beads.
5. to send by telegraph, as a message:
6. to send a telegraphic message to:
7. to snare by means of a wire.
8. to equip with a hidden electronic device, as an eavesdropping device or an explosive.
9. to connect (a receiver, area, or building) to a television cable and other equipment so that cable television programs may be received.
10. Informal. to be closely connected or involved with:
11. Informal. to prepare, equip, fix, or arrange to suit needs or goals:
12. Croquet. to block (a ball) by placing it behind the wire of an arch.

verb (used without object)

1. to send a telegraphic message; telegraph:

Origin of wire

before 900; Middle English wir(e) (noun), Old English wīr; cognate with Low German wīr, Old Norse vīra- wire, Old High German wiara fine goldwork

Examples for wire

On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.

The electricity had taken a certain time to travel from the ends of the wire to the middle.

Nor was it essential the wire should be straight; it might be bent into angles.

It was tried on a wire laid across the Rhine between Deutz and Cologne.

Holding the architectural smorgasbord of a castle together was cement, wire, and mortar.

The actor (The wire, Treme) and activist made no bones about his political leanings, proclaiming himself “a real live lefty.”

The framework is of bamboo, strengthened and held taut with wire guys.

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

You are no Frenchman, to spit flesh with a wire; but you can shoot, can't you?

“The [wire] interceptions speak for themselves,” Marino said Friday.