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.