wired

Meaning

1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
4. (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
5. Having wiry feathers.
6. (slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
7. (slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
8. (informal) Connected to the Internet; online.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪəd/

From wire + -ed.

New

wire

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.

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