wire

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
 * 2) A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
 * 3) A metal conductor that carries electricity.
 * 4) A fence made of usually barbed wire.
 * 5)  A finish line of a racetrack.
 * 6)  A telecommunication wire or cable.
 * 7)  An electric telegraph; a telegram.
 * 8)  A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
 * 9)  A deadline or critical endpoint.
 * 10)  A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
 * 11)  Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
 * to pull the wires for office
 * 1)  A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
 * 2)  A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
 * 3)  A knitting needle.
 * 4) The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
 * 1)  Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
 * to pull the wires for office
 * 1)  A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
 * 2)  A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
 * 3)  A knitting needle.
 * 4) The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

Synonyms

 * See telegraph
 * See telegram
 * See telegraph
 * See telegram
 * See telegram

Translations

 * Afrikaans: draad
 * Albanian:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: bitsʼǫǫs
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: سِلْك
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: তাৰ
 * Azerbaijani:, məftil,
 * Bashkir: тимерсыбыҡ
 * Basque: hari
 * Belarusian: про́вад, дрот
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, тел
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Melanau: waya
 * Chamicuro: alampre
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏅᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: drato
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მავთული
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: nimissiaq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: barot
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: proovolka
 * Italian:, filo metallico
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تێل
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ລວດ, ສາຍ
 * Latvian: stieple
 * Lithuanian: viela
 * Luxembourgish: Drot
 * Macedonian: жица
 * Malay:, ,
 * Maori: waea
 * Maranao: kawat
 * Mongolian: төмөр утас
 * Nepali: तार
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ledning,
 * Nynorsk: leidning, tråd
 * Old Javanese: kawat
 * Ossetian: тел
 * Ottoman Turkish: سیم
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Drot
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: uèir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: эмик
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠔꠣꠞ
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ལྕགས་སྐུད
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sim
 * Ukrainian: про́від, дріт
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: gwifren, weiren
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: דראָט
 * Zazaki: tel
 * Zhuang:


 * Azerbaijani: məftil
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: waya
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: სადენი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , cavo elettrico
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ខ្សែភ្លើង
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: stieple
 * Macedonian: жица
 * Malay:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uèir
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жица
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: эмик
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,


 * Afrikaans: draadheining
 * Bulgarian: те́лена огра́да
 * Finnish: piikkilanka-aita
 * Greek:
 * Italian: filo spinato
 * Khmer: លួសបន្លា
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: бодликава жица
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: maalinauha
 * Italian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Mandarin: (tiěsī)
 * Telugu: (1),  (2)

Verb

 * 1) To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
 * 2) To string on a wire.
 * 3) To equip with wires for use with electricity.
 * 4) To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
 * 5) To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
 * 6) To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
 * 7) To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
 * 8)  To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
 * 9) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 10)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 11)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 12) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 13)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1) To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
 * 2)  To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
 * 3) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 4)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 5)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 6) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 7)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1)  To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
 * 2) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 3)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 4)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 5) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 6)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1)  To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
 * 2) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 3)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 4)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 5) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 6)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1)  To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
 * 2) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 3)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 4)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 5) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 6)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1) To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
 * 2)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 3)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 4) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 5)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1)  To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
 * 2)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 3) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 4)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1)  To install eavesdropping equipment.
 * 2) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 3)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
 * 1) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
 * 2)  To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

Usage notes

 * In the sense of "connect" or "set, predetermine", the term can sometimes be made more emphatic by using hard-wire.
 * Compare wired.

Synonyms

 * electrify
 * cable, telegraph

Antonyms

 * unwire

Troponyms

 * rewire
 * rewire

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: στερεώνω με σύρμα
 * Italian: fissare con filo metallico
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: med


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: окабелявам
 * Dutch: electrificeren
 * Finnish: johdottaa
 * Greek:
 * Italian: stendere fili elettrici, installare impianto elettrico,
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: collegare tramite cavo
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Turkish:


 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , avere nervi a fior di pelle
 * Swahili:


 * Greek: βάζω κοριό
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: installare microspie
 * Swahili:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) water, fresh water
 * 2) river, stream