wire | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
2.A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
3.A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- That wire powers the lamp.
4.A fence made of usually barbed wire.

1.To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- We need to wire that hole in the fence.
- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
2.To string on a wire.
3.To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- Do you know how to wire a plug?
4.To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
- The same, obviously, cannot be said for Calipari, or Coach Cal as he's known by all those wired into the world of college basketball.
- There is an enormous neurological consequence to mechanorecptor dysfunction, which is related to how these cells are wired into the spinal cord.

Uncommon· #2799

From Middle English wir, wyr

From Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”)

From Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”)

From Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”)

From *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).