Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
- 3transitive verb
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
- 4transitive verb
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
- 5transitive verb
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- 6transitive verb
To send (a message) by telegraph.
- 7intransitive verb
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
- 8intransitive verb
To send a telegraphic message.
- 9noun
ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- 10noun
a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- 11noun
a message transmitted by telegraph
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- 12noun
the finishing line on a racetrack
- 13verb
equip for use with electricity
"electrify an appliance"
Synonyms
- 14verb
send cables, wires, or telegrams
- 15verb
fasten with wire
"The columns were wired to the beams for support"
- 16verb
string on a wire
"wire beads"
- 17verb
provide with electrical circuits
"wire the addition to the house"
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