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Wired   /wˈaɪərd/  /waɪrd/   Listen
verb
Wire  v. t.  (past & past part. wired; pres. part. 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.)
5.
(Croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
6.
To equip with a system of wiring, especially for supply of electrical power or communication; as, to wire an office for networking the computers; to wire a building with 220-Volt current.
7.
To equip with an electronic system for eavesdropping; to bug; as, to wire the office of a mob boss; to wire an informant so as to record his conversations.


Wire  v. i.  
1.
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. (R.)
2.
To send a telegraphic message. (Colloq.)





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"Wired" Quotes from Famous Books



... the oven where a white light had appeared. A woman-worker had already opened the door and was pulling a lever. As though by magic, a bunch of castings, wired together, came travelling out of their heat bath and were immediately lowered into a large tank which held the ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston
... little gate, and walked under a wealth of drooping flowers to the poultry yard that lay at the further side. Everything here was on the most up-to-date system. Pens of beautiful white Leghorns, Black Minorcas and Buff Orpingtons were kept in wired inclosures, each with its own henhouse and scratching-shed full of straw. Miss Heald took Winona inside to inspect the patent nesting-boxes, and the grit-cutting machine. She also showed ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... lucky I was in New York when Louis wired us she had flown," he continued—I omit the oaths which punctuated his phrases. "Lucky I had my men with me, too. I didn't think I'd need them here, but I'd promised them a trip to New York—and then comes Louis's wire. I put them on the track. I guessed she's go to Daly's—old Duchaine was mad about ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... listening. I was scrambling after the mess of tubes, condensers and power packs scattered over the rug. Some of them were still wired together, but most of them had broken loose. Elmer was certainly one heck of a sloppy workman. Hadn't even soldered the connections. ...
— The Aggravation of Elmer • Robert Andrew Arthur
... to bed Joe wired his acceptance of the offer, and in the morning received a telegram from Maurice Vane, asking him to go to Chicago, to the ...
— Joe The Hotel Boy • Horatio Alger Jr.


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