" wire "

[Noun]  | "wire" | \ ˈwī(-ə)r \

1: metal in the form of a usually very flexible thread or slender rod

2: a thread or rod of such material

3: wirework

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English wir, wyre, going back to Old English wīr, going back to Germanic *wīra-, whence Middle Low German wire "flexible metal, filigree," Old Norse vír-, in víravirki "filigree work," and (with presumed lowering of to 2 before ) Old High German wiara, wiera "fine gold, ornament of gold filigree," going back to a nominal derivative with a suffix -r- from Indo-European *u̯ei̯H- "plait, wrap," whence Latin vieō, viēre "to plait, weave," Old Church Slavic poviti "to wrap up, bind," Lithuanian výti "to twist," and probably to Sanskrit vyayati "(it) covers, envelops," vīta- "covered, hidden";

[Noun]  | "wire cloth" 

1: a fabric of woven metallic wire (as for strainers)

Origin: 1767 ;

[Noun]  | "wire fox terrier" 

1: any of a breed of fox terriers having a dense wiry chiefly white coat

Origin: 1929 ;

[Noun]  | "wire fraud" 

1: fraud committed using a means of electronic communication (such as a telephone or computer)

Origin: 1951 ;

[Noun]  | "wire gauge" 

1: a gauge especially for measuring the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal

2: any of various systems consisting of a series of standard sizes used in describing the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal

Origin: 1833 ;

[Noun]  | "wire gauze" 

1: a gauzelike wire cloth

Origin: 1842 ;

[Noun]  | "wire grass" 

1: any of various grasses or rushes having wiry culms or leaves: such as

2: a Eurasian slender-stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the U.S. and Canada

3: any of several coarse grasses (genus Aristida) with a 3-awned lemma that grow extensively in open dry, sandy, or sterile areas especially of the southeastern and south-central U.S.

Origin: 1751 ;

[Noun]  | "wire netting" 

1: a wire cloth coarser than wire gauze

Origin: 1769 ;

[Noun]  | "wire-pull*er" | \ ˈwī(-ə)r-ˌpu̇-lər \

1: one who uses secret or underhanded means to influence the acts of a person or organization

Origin: 1825 ;

[Verb]  | "wire" 

1: to provide with wire : use wire on for a specific purpose

2: to send or send word to by telegraph

3: to connect by or as if by a wire

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English *wiren (in past participle y-wyred), derivative of wyr, wire {see: |wire:1|wire:1};

[Verb]  | "wire" 

[Noun]  | "wire" 

[Noun]  | "trip wire" 

[Noun]  | "live wire" 

[Adjective]  | "down-to-the-wire"