wire

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
2. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
3. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
4. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
5. A finish line of a racetrack.
6. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
7. An electric telegraph; a telegram.
8. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
9. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
10. A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
11. 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.
12. A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
13. (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
14. A knitting needle.
15. The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

Verb

1. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
2. To string on a wire.
3. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
4. To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
5. To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
6. To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
7. To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
8. To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
9. (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
10. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
11. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
12. To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

Conceptos

alambre

cable

hilo

🧵

telegrama

alambrar

cablear

cable metálico

cuerda de arco

maroma

🪢

telegrafiar

cuerda gruesa

soga fuerte

soga gruesa de cuero

hilo metálico

de alambre

Sinónimos

cable

telegraph

telegram

thread

🧵

line

string

🪢

rope

🪢

conducting wire

electric wire

cord

electrify

metal wire

cablegram

chain

conductor

send a telegram

band

beam

flash

lead

vine

wiring

strand

pin on

iron wire

guide line

hair

hang

hang up

iron

medium

message

metallic

nail

needle

network

power

power line

ray

reeve

row

shoestring

startle

steel wire

suspend

tape

telephone call

tinsel

transmitter

traverse

whisk

wire netting

funicle

W

W

electric line

metal rod

fencing wire

curve fitting

metallic thread

overseas telegram

power cord

current lead

lead wire

leading wire

directing line

voltaic wire

conductor configuration

conductor arrangement

wire-steel

steel thread

bowstring

bug

🐛

carrier

channel

charge

circuit

clothesline

communicate

conduit

conveyer

conveyor

core

dangle

draw

electric cable

electric cord

electric main

fiber

filament

finishing line

finish line

galvanise

galvanize

goal line

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/waɪə(ɹ)/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).

Oraciones

Give me that call on Patrick's wire !

¡Dame esa llamada al cable de Patrick!

My Wacom tablet has a dodgy wire .

Mi tableta Wacom tiene un cable dudoso.