wire: betydelser og definitioner

A wire service.

Computer Science A pin in the print head of a computer printer.

The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.

A usually pliable metallic strand or rod made in many lengths and diameters, sometimes clad and often electrically insulated, used chiefly for structural support or to conduct electricity.

A group of wire strands bundled or twisted together as a functional unit; cable.

Something resembling a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.

An open telephone connection.

Slang A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.

A telegraph service.

A telegram or cablegram.

Sports The finish line of a racetrack.

The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.

Hidden controlling influences.

Slang A pickpocket.

Fencing made of usually barbed wire.

To bind, connect, or attach with wires or a wire.

To string (beads, for example) on wire.

To equip with a system of electrical wires.

Slang To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).

To send by telegraph: wired her congratulations.

To send a telegram to.

Computer Science To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming.

To determine or put into effect by physiological or neurological mechanisms; hard-wire: "It is plausible that the basic organization of grammar is wired into the child's brain” ( Steven Pinker).

To send a telegram.

down to the wire Informal To the very end, as in a race or contest.