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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



... so far as their future use was concerned. I saw the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries Garden in Paris packed with one thousand captured German guns and more than a score of Boche planes and observation balloons. On one great pile were three thousand Boche helmets, carefully wired together and closely guarded so that souvenir hunters could not slip them away. It seemed a terrible price to pay for object lessons for the great celebrations commemorating the overthrow of autocracy. But having paid the price it was right ...
— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West
... that Luther's telegram came I was planning to start for the Continent as Staff Correspondent of the "New York Evening Post" and Special Correspondent of the "Boston Journal." Remembering that Cambridge agreement I immediately wired:— ...
— The Log of a Noncombatant • Horace Green
... doing as well as one can under the circumstance. He replied, "Don't you want them to come down here?" I said, "No!" "They can do no good here, and will be in the way." When he got to New York he wired to Sherburne: "Garland mortally wounded. Fuller dangerously wounded. Plumb all right." That night my father started for Unadilla Forks to see Dr. King, his brother-in-law. The doctor was one of the best surgeons in Otsego Co. My father told him he wanted him to go to ...
— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller
... Tall electric-wired fences girdled Port o' Porno to keep the jungle back. It was equivalent to a death sentence to pass unarmed outside them; the monstrous shapes that lived and fought in the jungle's swampy gloom saw to that. Hideous nightmare shapes they were, some reptilian and comparable ...
— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore
... more about it at the time. He merely re-wired his vat and went on electroplating. But afterwards, in prison, he remembered the incident, and like a flash there came into his mind the full significance of it. He saw in it the silent, secret weapon with which to revenge himself on the world. His great discovery, which died with him, was ...
— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London


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