wire
About 21.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- noun A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- noun A metal conductor that carries electricity.
That wire powers the lamp.
- noun A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- noun A finish line of a racetrack.
- noun A telecommunication wire or cable.
- noun An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- noun A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
Similar words
cable conducting wire electrify telegraph telegram duct cabling fence pivot knife
Often followed by
and is to in or of fence from was
Word family
wired wirelike wirer wirers wires wiring
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