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wire/why're

wire   (wīr)

Noun.

  • 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.
  • A group of wire strands bundled or twisted together as a functional unit; cable.
  • Something resembling a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.
  • An open telephone connection.
  • Slang. A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.
  • A telegraph service.
  • Computer Science. A pin in the print head of a computer printer.
  • The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
  • Sports. The finish line of a racetrack.
  • The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.
  • Hidden controlling influences.
  • Slang. A pickpocket.
  • Fencing made of usually barbed wire.


Verb., wired, wir·ing, wires.

Verb. Transitive.

  • To bind, connect, or attach with wires or a wire.
  • To string (beads, for example) on wire.
  • To equip with a system of electrical wires.
  • Slang. To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
  • To send by telegraph: wired her congratulations.
  • To send a telegram to.
  • 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.

  • To send a telegram.

 

why're

  • contraction of why are: Why're you so late?

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