Wire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

   “Holonyms: cable; wire rope; wiring harness; wire wool”

2. isim A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
3. isim A metal conductor that carries electricity.

   “That wire powers the lamp.”

4. isim A fence made of usually barbed wire.
5. isim A finish line of a racetrack.
6. isim A telecommunication wire or cable.

   “The episode began by a telephone ring in the morning and the voice of Algernon Mailey at the far end of the wire.”

7. isim An electric telegraph; a telegram.

   “Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." [Telephone rings.] Hello! This is the Central Office. Yes. Certainly. Well, send them a wire. Good. [Hangs up telephone.] Where did I leave off?”

8. isim A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
9. isim A deadline or critical endpoint.

   “This election is going to go right to the wire”

10. isim A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
11. isim 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.

    “to pull the wires for office”

12. isim A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
13. isim A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
14. isim A knitting needle.
15. isim The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
16. isim Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.

    “Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.”

17. fiil To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

    “We need to wire that hole in the fence.”

18. fiil To string on a wire.

    “wire beads”

19. fiil To equip with wires for use with electricity.

    “Do you know how to wire a plug?”

20. fiil To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.

    “I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.”

21. fiil To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).

    “There is an enormous neurological consequence to mechanorecptor dysfunction, which is related to how these cells are wired into the spinal cord.”

22. fiil 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).

    “He was the minority leader's political eyes and ears— nicknamed "the Electrician," due to all the intrigue and legislative shenanigans he was wired into.”

23. fiil To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.

    “There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.”

24. fiil To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.

    “Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.”

25. fiil To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.

    “Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.”

26. fiil To install eavesdropping equipment.

    “We wired the suspect's house.”

27. fiil To snare by means of a wire or wires.
28. fiil To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
29. özel isim A surname.