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Synonyms for wire
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Wiktionary
wirenoun
Synonyms:
thread, steel wire, conducting wire, barbed wire, telegram, telegraph, cable, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
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score stringwirenoun
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
We need to wire that hole in the fence.
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steel wire, telegram, telegraph, conducting wire, cable, barbed wire, thread, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To string on a wire.
wire beads
Synonyms:
steel wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, barbed wire, telegraph, telegram, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Synonyms:
steel wire, barbed wire, telegram, cable, conducting wire, thread, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
Synonyms:
telegraph, conducting wire, telegram, thread, cable, steel wire, barbed wire, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
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telegraph, thread, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To make someone tense or psyched-up.
I'm never going to sleep – I'm completely wired from all that coffee.
Synonyms:
telegram, telegraph, thread, barbed wire, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
To install eavesdropping equipment.
We wired the suspect's house.
Synonyms:
steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
A deadline or critical endpoint.
This election is going to go right to the wire
Synonyms:
telegram, cable, telegraph, steel wire, barbed wire, conducting wire, threadwirenoun
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Synonyms:
conducting wire, steel wire, thread, barbed wire, telegram, cable, telegraph
Princeton's WordNet
wirenoun
ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
Synonyms:
telegram, conducting wireAntonyms:
unwirewire, conducting wirenoun
a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
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telegram, conducting wireAntonyms:
unwirewirenoun
the finishing line on a racetrack
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telegram, conducting wireAntonyms:
unwiretelegram, wireverb
a message transmitted by telegraph
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telegram, conducting wireAntonyms:
unwirewireverb
provide with electrical circuits
"wire the addition to the house"
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cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirecable, telegraph, wireverb
send cables, wires, or telegrams
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cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewireverb
fasten with wire
"The columns were wired to the beams for support"
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cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwirewireverb
string on a wire
"wire beads"
Synonyms:
cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwireelectrify, wireverb
equip for use with electricity
"electrify an appliance"
Synonyms:
cable, telegraph, electrifyAntonyms:
unwire
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
wirenoun
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metallic threadwireverb
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put upon a wirewireverb
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bind with wirewireverb
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ensnare by wireswireverb
Synonyms:
[Modern.] telegraph, convey by electric telegraph, report by telegram
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#457 | thread | |
#1143 | cable | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1417 | son | |
#2558 | wire | |
#3273 | cables | |
#5619 | cord | |
#8050 | rope | |
#9021 | wiring | |
#9576 | wires | |
#9931 | yarn | |
#10724 | telegraph | |
#14825 | cabling | |
#15803 | cords | |
#23450 | telegram | |
#23897 | fil | |
#59255 | telegraphic | |
#141924 | electrify |
How to use wire in a sentence?
My husband had wanted to come back to his homeland all his life, he came back when it was all closed here, when it was prohibited to come here. He crossed through barbed wire.
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Man on Wire we are seeking meaningful change at Facebook and the end to their amplification of hate speech.
All the signs of ORB’s latest and final poll point to a referendum that will truly come down to the wire.
It’s been a lot of fun, pretty intense atmosphere. These games are really going down to the wire against a really good team. We’ve got a ton of fans in the stands. Really enjoy playing in front of these crowds like this. Hope it continues.
The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.
Translations for wire
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- draad, draadheiningAfrikaans
- سلكArabic
- telAzerbaijani
- тимерсыбыҡBashkir
- жицаBulgarian
- fil d'aram, cable, filferroCatalan, Valencian
- drátCzech
- trådDanish
- Ader, Draht, überweisenGerman
- συρματόπλεγμα, σύρμα, κοριός, καλώδιο, στέλνω, καλωδιώνω, [[βάζω]] [[κοριός, [[στερεώνω]] [[με]] [[σύρμα]], τσιτώνω, τηλεγραφώGreek
- dratoEsperanto
- hilo, alambreSpanish
- hariBasque
- سیمPersian
- [[piikkilanka]]-[[aita]], sähköjohto, lanka, metallilanka, maalinauha, johdin, johdottaa, sitoa, pujottaa, kytkeäFinnish
- filFrench
- uèirScottish Gaelic
- arameGalician
- huzal, drótHungarian
- vírIcelandic
- traguardo, cavo, filo metallico, cimice, filo, microspia, arrivo, filo spinato, filo elettrico, legare con filo metallico, [[installare]] [[microspie]], assicurare con filo metallico, gasare, eccitare, collegare tramite cavo, stendere fili elettrici, installare impianto elettrico, infilzare, fissare con filo metallico, avere nervi a fior di pelle, telegrafareItalian
- 電線, 針金, 線Japanese
- სადენი, მავთულიGeorgian
- nimissiaqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- 철조망, 전선, 철사, 鐵絲, 電線Korean
- تێلKurdish
- DrotLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- stiepleLatvian
- waeaMāori
- бодликава жица, жицаMacedonian
- dawai, wayar, kawatMalay
- ader, elektriciteitsdraad, snoer, draad, aansluiten, vastbinden, electrificerenDutch
- ledningNorwegian
- телOssetian, Ossetic
- drutPolish
- escuta, arame, fioPortuguese
- fir, sârmăRomanian
- проволока, жучо́к, проводRussian
- жица, žicaSerbo-Croatian
- drôtSlovak
- žicaSlovene
- telAlbanian
- ledning, tråd, målsnöre, fästa, ståltrådSwedish
- wayaSwahili
- tel, havale etmekTurkish
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