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Synonyms for wire
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  1. wirenoun

    Synonyms:
    thread, steel wire, conducting wire, barbed wire, telegram, telegraph, cable, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  2. wirenoun

    Synonyms:
    score string

  3. wirenoun

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

    We need to wire that hole in the fence.

    Synonyms:
    steel wire, telegram, telegraph, conducting wire, cable, barbed wire, thread, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  4. wirenoun

    To string on a wire.

    wire beads

    Synonyms:
    steel wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, barbed wire, telegraph, telegram, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  5. wirenoun

    To equip with wires for use with electricity.

    Synonyms:
    steel wire, barbed wire, telegram, cable, conducting wire, thread, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  6. wirenoun

    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, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  7. wirenoun

    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.

    Synonyms:
    telegraph, thread, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  8. wirenoun

    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, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  9. wirenoun

    To install eavesdropping equipment.

    We wired the suspect's house.

    Synonyms:
    steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  10. wirenoun

    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, thread

  11. wirenoun

    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 WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wirenoun

    ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

    Synonyms:
    telegram, conducting wire

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  2. wire, conducting wirenoun

    a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

    Synonyms:
    telegram, conducting wire

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  3. wirenoun

    the finishing line on a racetrack

    Synonyms:
    telegram, conducting wire

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  4. telegram, wireverb

    a message transmitted by telegraph

    Synonyms:
    telegram, conducting wire

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  5. wireverb

    provide with electrical circuits

    "wire the addition to the house"

    Synonyms:
    cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  6. cable, telegraph, wireverb

    send cables, wires, or telegrams

    Synonyms:
    cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  7. wireverb

    fasten with wire

    "The columns were wired to the beams for support"

    Synonyms:
    cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  8. wireverb

    string on a wire

    "wire beads"

    Synonyms:
    cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

  9. electrify, wireverb

    equip for use with electricity

    "electrify an appliance"

    Synonyms:
    cable, telegraph, electrify

    Antonyms:
    unwire

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wirenoun

    Synonyms:
    metallic thread

  2. wireverb

    Synonyms:
    put upon a wire

  3. wireverb

    Synonyms:
    bind with wire

  4. wireverb

    Synonyms:
    ensnare by wires

  5. wireverb

    Synonyms:
    [Modern.] telegraph, convey by electric telegraph, report by telegram

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How to use wire in a sentence?

  1. Maria Lozbin:

    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.

  3. Lynton Crosby:

    All the signs of ORB’s latest and final poll point to a referendum that will truly come down to the wire.

  4. Jared Walsh:

    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.

  5. Zeid Raad al-Hussein:

    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.


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