Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
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- UK:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (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.
Verbit
- 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 add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
- (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
- To make someone tense or psyched up.
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
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 |