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[ US /ˈwaɪɝ, ˈwaɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /wˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
VERB
  1. equip for use with electricity
    electrify an appliance
  2. string on a wire
    wire beads
  3. fasten with wire
    The columns were wired to the beams for support
  4. provide with electrical circuits
    wire the addition to the house
  5. send cables, wires, or telegrams
NOUN
  1. a message transmitted by telegraph
  2. a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
  3. the finishing line on a racetrack
  4. ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

How To Use wire In A Sentence

  • A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
  • Since then neither the printer nor wireless internet router appeared to be working. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
  • The telemetered technology will also benefit from integration with wireless-phone technology.
  • New hardware, software, networking gear, and wireless devices are being woven together by the connective power of the Internet into a potent, upsetting force.
  • A series of molecules that Bennett has developed are unique because they have the potential to yield insulated nano-scale wires.
  • The second approach uses an app and plug-in devices or wireless controllers installed next to the equipment. Times, Sunday Times
  • _merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops.
  • T's so-called postpaid net subscriber growth, which fell sharply in the first quarter from a year earlier, continued to lag in the second quarter, underscoring the difficulties of the wireless industry's most lucrative source of income. AT
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