Definitions for wiring

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wiring wir·ing

Spelling: [wahyuh r-ing]

IPA: /ˈwaɪər ɪŋ/

Wiring is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in wiring (giinrw).

Definitions for wiring

noun

1. an act of a person who wires.
2. Electricity. the aggregate of wires in a lighting system, switchboard, radio, etc.
3. 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.
4. such pieces as a material.
5. 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.
6. a cross wire or a cross hair.
7. a barbed-wire fence.
8. a long wire or cable used in cable, telegraph, or telephone systems.
9. Nautical. a wire rope.
10. Informal. a telegram. the telegraphic system:
11. wires, a system of wires by which puppets are moved.
12. a metallic string of a musical instrument.
13. Underworld Slang. the member of a pickpocket team who picks the victim's pocket. Compare stall2 (def 5).
14. Horse Racing. a wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line, under which the horses pass.
15. Ornithology. one of the extremely long, slender, wirelike filaments or shafts of the plumage of various birds.
16. a metal device for snaring rabbits and other small game.
17. Papermaking. the woven wire mesh over which the wet pulp is spread in a papermaking machine.
18. 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 wiring

First recorded in 1800-10; wire + -ing¹

Examples for wiring

A website for the project reveals what looks like what looks like a white nightgown with wiring between the breasts.

His limbs lost their flexibility, and some of his wiring started to corrode.

The sifter dumped flotsam—bricks, wiring, barbecue grills, bicycle wheels—in piles to be shipped to landfills upstate.

First he brought out from the ship coils of wiring and jumbles of instruments.

We were looking at new traffic all the time or where the wheels or the wiring had been changed, or at other new techniques.

Something in her wiring has taught her that relaxing her defenses is dangerous.

There was wiring everywhere, and a multitude of lighting fixtures.

The fire was quickly extinguished after that and the wiring spliced.

While Sutter looked on with apprehensive eyes, he began to tinker with the wiring.

You know, troubled and certainly having a different kind of wiring that lends itself to conscience and consequential behavior.