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Meaning Of Wire

  1. n.
    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. n.
    A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
  3. v. t.
    To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
  4. v. t.
    To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
  5. v. t.
    To snare by means of a wire or wires.
  6. v. t.
    To send (a message) by telegraph.
  7. v. i.
    To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
  8. v. i.
    To send a telegraphic message.



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