wire
Significado
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- Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- A finish line of a racetrack.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/waɪə(ɹ)/
Etimología
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).
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