wires
电线
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Definitions
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- : a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- : such pieces as a material.
- : a length of such material, consisting either of a single filament or of several filaments woven or twisted together and usually insulated with a dielectric material, used as a conductor of electricity.
- : a cross wire or a cross hair.
- : a barbed-wire fence.
- : a long wire or cable used in cable, telegraph, or telephone systems.
- : Nautical. a wire rope.
- : Informal. a telegram.the telegraphic system: to send a message by wire.
- : wires, a system of wires by which puppets are moved.
- : a metallic string of a musical instrument.
- : Underworld Slang. the member of a pickpocket team who picks the victim's pocket.Compare stall.
- : Horse Racing. a wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line, under which the horses pass.
- : Ornithology. one of the extremely long, slender, wirelike filaments or shafts of the plumage of various birds.
- : a metal device for snaring rabbits and other small game.
- : Papermaking. the woven wire mesh over which the wet pulp is spread in a papermaking machine.
- : the wire, the telephone: There's someone on the wire for you.
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- : made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
- : resembling wire; wirelike.
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wired, wir·ing.
- : to furnish with wires.
- : to install an electric system of wiring in, as for lighting.
- : to fasten or bind with wire: He wired the halves together.
- : to put on a wire, as beads.
- : to send by telegraph, as a message: Please wire the money at once.
- : to send a telegraphic message to: She wired him to come at once.
- : to snare by means of a wire.
- : to equip with a hidden electronic device, as an eavesdropping device or an explosive.
- : to connect to a television cable and other equipment so that cable television programs may be received.
- : Informal. to be closely connected or involved with: a law firm wired into political circles.
- : Informal. to prepare, equip, fix, or arrange to suit needs or goals: The sales force was wired for an all-out effort.
- : Croquet. to block by placing it behind the wire of an arch.
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wired, wir·ing.
- : to send a telegraphic message; telegraph: Don't write; wire.
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Examples
The lines may not seem like much – a punch of poles, wires and equipment.
The panel systems have conduits underneath them, which house the wires that transmit the electricity generated.
On shorter routes, overhead electrical wires began to provide the juice.
Wires hang from its ceiling, its marble floors are chipped and trash is strewn across the dusty corridors.
In 2011, the wires were clogged with stories of a potential Peace Prize gong for Julian Assange.
Little thrills of excitement running from Rosemary's fingers to her toes felt like vibrating wires.
Flocks of birds seemed to sing through the air, striking against the telegraph wires.
"Warn the men, and arrange tanks and chutes accordingly; for Harvey Cheyne is in a hurry, a hurry—hurry," sang the wires.
For the antenna and lead-in and ground wires, Jessie purchased three hundred feet of copper wire, number fourteen.
They laid out the work for the next morning, but did nothing practical toward erecting the wires and attendant parts that day.