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Definition of Wires
wires

In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

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Wires Quotations

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
Albert Finney

We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
Kelly Jones

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!
John Badham

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.
Chiaki Kuriyama

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
Charles Anthon

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Janet Frame

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J Allard

Wires Translations

wires in Italian is fili


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