Wire

English Meaning

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.

1. A usually pliable metallic strand or rod made in many lengths and diameters, sometimes clad and often electrically insulated, used chiefly for structural support or to conduct electricity.
2. A group of wire strands bundled or twisted together as a functional unit; cable.
3. Something resembling a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.
4. An open telephone connection.
5. Slang A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.
6. A telegraph service.
7. A telegram or cablegram.
8. A wire service.
9. Computer Science A pin in the print head of a computer printer.
10. The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
11. Sports The finish line of a racetrack.
12. The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.
13. Hidden controlling influences.
14. Slang A pickpocket.
15. Fencing made of usually barbed wire.
16. To bind, connect, or attach with wires or a wire.
17. To string (beads, for example) on wire.
18. To equip with a system of electrical wires.
19. Slang To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
20. To send by telegraph: wired her congratulations.
21. To send a telegram to.
22. Computer Science To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming.
23. To determine or put into effect by physiological or neurological mechanisms; hard-wire: "It is plausible that the basic organization of grammar is wired into the child's brain” ( Steven Pinker).
24. To send a telegram.
25. down to the wire Informal To the very end, as in a race or contest.
26. under the wire Sports At the finish line.
27. under the wire Informal Just in the nick of time; at the last moment.