Definitions for wires

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wires wire

Spelling: [wahyuh r]

IPA: /waɪər/

Wires is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in wires (eirsw).

Definitions for wires

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 wires

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 wires

It is Faraday's currents that speed from place to place through these wires.

The new was composed of the same number of wires, but weighed 300 pounds to the mile.

The lines may not seem like much – a punch of poles, wires and equipment.

When news of the smuggled skulls broke over the wires early last November a Tweeter from Mogadishu replied: Shhh keep it quiet!

In 2011, the wires were clogged with stories of a potential Peace Prize gong for Julian Assange.

Mrs. Robbins was slight, and hung on wires,—so said her neighbors.

A glance at the illustration will make this plain, and also show how the wires are to be placed.

As the wires snapped into place, she halted and looked back at him.

wires hang from its ceiling, its marble floors are chipped and trash is strewn across the dusty corridors.

The panel systems have conduits underneath them, which house the wires that transmit the electricity generated.