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English Dictionary: wire by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wire
n
  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(s): wire, conducting wire
  3. the finishing line on a racetrack
  4. a message transmitted by telegraph
    Synonym(s): telegram, wire
v
  1. provide with electrical circuits; "wire the addition to the house"
  2. send cables, wires, or telegrams
    Synonym(s): cable, telegraph, wire
  3. fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support"
    Antonym(s): unwire
  4. string on a wire; "wire beads"
  5. equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"
    Synonym(s): electrify, wire
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[c6]rr, Dan.
      vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
      to E. withy. [?][?][?][?].]
      1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance
            formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved
            rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
  
      Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
               triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
               the drawplate, or between the rollers.
  
      2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
            as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]
  
      {Wire bed}, {Wire mattress}, an elastic bed bottom or
            mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
            various ways.
  
      {Wire bridge}, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
            of wire.
  
      {Wire cartridge}, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
            in a wire cage.
  
      {Wire cloth}, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
            used for strainers, and for various other purposes.
  
      {Wire edge}, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
            formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
            it.
  
      {Wire fence}, a fence consisting of posts with strained
            horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
            between.
  
      {Wire gauge} [or] {gage}.
            (a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
                  of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
                  plate with a series of notches of various widths in
                  its edge.
            (b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
                  by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
                  thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
                  used in describing the size or thickness. There are
                  many different standards for wire gauges, as in
                  different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
                  the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
                  being often used and designated by the abbreviations
                  B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.
  
      {Wire gauze}, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
            gauze.
  
      {Wire grass} (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
            {Eleusine Indica}, valuable for hay and pasture, and {Poa
            compressa}, or blue grass. See {Blue grass}.
  
      {Wire grub} (Zo[94]l.), a wireworm.
  
      {Wire iron}, wire rods of iron.
  
      {Wire lathing}, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
            place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.
  
      {Wire mattress}. See {Wire bed}, above.
  
      {Wire micrometer}, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
            wires, across the field of the instrument.
  
      {Wire nail}, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
            and pointed.
  
      {Wire netting}, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
            wire gauze.
  
      {Wire rod}, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
           
  
      {Wire rope}, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
            wires.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, v. i.
      1. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a
            tenuous stream. [R.] --P. Fletcher.
  
      2. To send a telegraphic message. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, v. t. (Croquet)
      To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a
      successful shot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, n.
      1. Chiefly in pl. The system of wires used to operate the
            puppets in a puppet show; hence (Chiefly Political Slang),
            the network of hidden influences controlling the action of
            a person or organization; as, to pull the wires for
            office.
  
      2. One who picks women's pockets. [Thieves' Slang]
  
      3. A knitting needle. [Scot.]
  
      4. A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges'
            stand, to mark the line at which the races end. [Racing
            Cant]
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