<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>Such pieces as a material.</li><li>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.</li><li>A cross wire or a cross hair.</li><li>A barbed-wire fence.</li><li>A long wire or cable used in cable, telegraph, or telephone systems.</li><li>Nautical: a wire rope.</li><li>Informal: a telegram.</li><li>The telegraphic system: to send a message by wire.</li><li>Wires: a system of wires by which puppets are moved.</li><li>A metallic string of a musical instrument.</li><li>Underworld Slang: the member of a pickpocket team who picks the victim's pocket.</li><li>Horse Racing: a wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line, under which the horses pass.</li><li>Ornithology: one of the extremely long, slender, wirelike filaments or shafts of the plumage of various birds.</li><li>A metal device for snaring rabbits and other small game.</li><li>Papermaking: the woven wire mesh over which the wet pulp is spread in a papermaking machine.</li><li>The wire, the telephone: There's someone on the wire for you.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.</li><li>Resembling wire; wirelike.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To furnish with wires.</li><li>To install an electric system of wiring in, as for lighting.</li><li>To fasten or bind with wire: He wired the halves together.</li><li>To put on a wire, as beads.</li><li>To send by telegraph, as a message: Please wire the money at once.</li><li>To send a telegraphic message to: She wired him to come at once.</li><li>To snare by means of a wire.</li><li>To equip with a hidden electronic device, as an eavesdropping device or an explosive.</li><li>To connect (a receiver, area, or building) to a television cable and other equipment so that cable television programs may be received.</li><li>Informal: to be closely connected or involved with: a law firm wired into political circles.</li><li>Informal: to prepare, equip, fix, or arrange to suit needs or goals: The sales force was wired for an all-out effort.</li><li>Croquet: to block (a ball) by placing it behind the wire of an arch.</li></ul>