wire/why're
wire (wīr)
Noun.
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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.
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A group of wire strands bundled or twisted together as a functional unit; cable.
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Something resembling a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.
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An open telephone connection.
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Slang. A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.
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A telegraph service.
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Computer Science. A pin in the print head of a computer printer.
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The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
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Sports. The finish line of a racetrack.
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The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.
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Hidden controlling influences.
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Slang. A pickpocket.
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Fencing made of usually barbed wire.
Verb., wired, wir·ing, wires.
Verb. Transitive.
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To bind, connect, or attach with wires or a wire.
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To string (beads, for example) on wire.
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To equip with a system of electrical wires.
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Slang. To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
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To send by telegraph: wired her congratulations.
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To send a telegram to.
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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.
Verb. Intransitive.
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To send a telegram.
why're
- contraction of why are: Why're you so late?
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