Definition of Wire

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Definition of Wire

Wire

The system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show;

the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; as, to pull the wires for office.

One who picks women's pockets.

A knitting needle.

A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges' stand, to mark the line at which the races end.

To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

To snare by means of a wire or wires.

To send (a message) by telegraph.

To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

To send a telegraphic message.

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Wire Quotations

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!
Adam Sandler

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
Paul Lynde

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Orville Wright

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
Sean Connery

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Erich Maria Remarque

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Wire Translations

wire in Dutch is metaaldraad, draad
wire in French is fil
wire in German is Draht, Draht, Kabel
wire in Italian is cavo, fil di ferro
wire in Portuguese is arame, fio
wire in Spanish is alambre

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