wire

wire is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
2. noun. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
3. transitive verb. To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
4. transitive verb. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
5. transitive verb. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
6. transitive verb. To send (a message) by telegraph.
7. intransitive verb. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
8. intransitive verb. To send a telegraphic message.
9. noun. ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
10. noun. a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
11. noun. a message transmitted by telegraph

    Synonyms: telegram

12. noun. the finishing line on a racetrack
13. verb. equip for use with electricity

    "electrify an appliance"

    Synonyms: electrify

14. verb. send cables, wires, or telegrams

    Synonyms: cable, telegraph

15. verb. fasten with wire

    "The columns were wired to the beams for support"

16. verb. string on a wire

    "wire beads"

17. verb. provide with electrical circuits

    "wire the addition to the house"

Synonyms

telegram, electrify, cable, telegraph

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wire:

weir, weri

Common word forms

wired, wirer, wires, wiring, wireless

Words from these letters

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