Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
- (arkikielessä)cable
- thread
- electrify
- (amerikanenglanti)telegraph
- barbed wire
- conducting wire
- steel wire
- score string
- (arkikielessä)See telegraph
- (arkikielessä)See telegram
- telegram
Ääntäminen
US- UK:
- IPA: /waɪə/
Määritelmät
Verbi
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To string on a wire.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
Substantiivi
- (uncountable) 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.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (by extension) 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.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (usually in the plural) 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.
- (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
Esimerkit
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
- This election is going to go right to the wire
- We need to wire that hole in the fence.
- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- wire beads
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
- Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
- I'm never going to sleep: I'm completely wired from all that coffee.
- We wired the suspect's house.
- She wired the connections for the entertainment unit.
- I’ll wire you the money.
- We wired the suspects house.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | wired |
| Imperfekti | wired |
| Partisiipin preesens | wiring |
| Monikko | wires |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | wires |