wire

IPA: wˈaɪɝ

(uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
(sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
(informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
(informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
(usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
(archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
(slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
(Scotland) A knitting needle.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A surname.

To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
(figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
(slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
(slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
(transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

Examples of "wire" in Sentences

But surrounding him with threats, a kind of theological barbed wire, is another thing.
When you hear the word wire, your mind probably wanders to jewelry, baskets or the latest in technology.
Then i can swap between a lid attached to a cable and a lid attached to a coathanger wrapped in wire and made into a handle.
That "wire" is used for billing and the system provides you with cell phone circuits that have the same limitations as their wired counterparts.
Mr. MILLS: The first 10 or 15 tiers we just laid in a circle and then as we got up above that, we started using what we call wire ties to tie them together.
Let us put this in ordinary phrase, and say that in a wire through which a current is passing there is a magnetic attraction, and that the "pull" is always _straight toward the wire_.
The reason for the concertina wire is that we have found that these punks can easily and quickly get over our eight foot stone walls so the razor wire is there to make that wall breach more difficult.