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Wired   /wˈaɪərd/  /waɪrd/   Listen
verb
Wire  v. t.  (past & past part. wired; pres. part. wiring)  
1.
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
2.
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
3.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
4.
To send (a message) by telegraph. (Colloq.)
5.
(Croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
6.
To equip with a system of wiring, especially for supply of electrical power or communication; as, to wire an office for networking the computers; to wire a building with 220-Volt current.
7.
To equip with an electronic system for eavesdropping; to bug; as, to wire the office of a mob boss; to wire an informant so as to record his conversations.



Wire  v. i.  
1.
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. (R.)
2.
To send a telegraphic message. (Colloq.)






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"Wired" Quotes from Famous Books



... the station I saw about a hundred Boer horsemen cantering southwards about a mile from the railway. Beyond Chieveley a long hill was lined with a row of black spots, showing that our further advance would be disputed. The telegraphist who accompanied the train wired back to Estcourt reporting our safe arrival, and that parties of Boers were to be seen at no great distance, and Colonel Long replied by ordering the train to return to Frere and remain there in observation during ...
— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... to the single hotel, where they found plenty of accommodation. Then the colonel hurried off to the cable office and wired Winnie. Next he ascertained that the British ship Simla would weigh anchor the following evening for Bombay; that there they could pick up the Delhi, bound for England. There was nothing further to do but wait for the answer to the colonel's cable to ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

... to recross the mountains by a southern route, and to give himself as much of a pleasure trip as he ever took, Mr. Brock changed all his plans at the last moment—a move at which he was masterly—and wired Bucks to meet him at Bear Dance for the return trip. Doctor Lanning, moreover, had advised that Marie spend some further time in the mountains, where her gain ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

... Buller occupied Colenso, and wired to our Commandant to join him with his whole force. The Cavalry left at 5 a.m. and at 2 p.m. the rest of us moved off, my guns being escorted by the York and Lancasters, with the Imperial Light Infantry in rear, the whole under Colonel Fitzpatrick. ...
— With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) - Journal of Active Service • Charles Richard Newdigate Burne

... wired us that the famed variety dancer Lola Lal, who also appears under the name Lo Llal and whose maiden name is Leni Levi, had to be taken to a lunatic asylum, which caused a tremendous sensation. The pitiful woman had been found toward morning in a wheat field, stark naked in her birthday ...
— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein


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