Synonyms for wire
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1. wirenoun

   Synonyms:
   thread, steel wire, conducting wire, barbed wire, telegram, telegraph, cable, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

2. wirenoun

   Synonyms:
   score string

3. wirenoun

   To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

   We need to wire that hole in the fence.

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, telegram, telegraph, conducting wire, cable, barbed wire, thread, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

4. wirenoun

   To string on a wire.

   wire beads

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, barbed wire, telegraph, telegram, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

5. wirenoun

   To equip with wires for use with electricity.

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, barbed wire, telegram, cable, conducting wire, thread, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

6. wirenoun

   To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

   I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.

   Synonyms:
   telegraph, conducting wire, telegram, thread, cable, steel wire, barbed wire, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

7. wirenoun

   To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.

   Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.

   Synonyms:
   telegraph, thread, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

8. wirenoun

   To make someone tense or psyched-up.

   I'm never going to sleep – I'm completely wired from all that coffee.

   Synonyms:
   telegram, telegraph, thread, barbed wire, cable, conducting wire, steel wire, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

9. wirenoun

   To install eavesdropping equipment.

   We wired the suspect's house.

   Synonyms:
   steel wire, telegram, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread, cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

10. wirenoun

    A deadline or critical endpoint.

    This election is going to go right to the wire

    Synonyms:
    telegram, cable, telegraph, steel wire, barbed wire, conducting wire, thread

11. wirenoun

    A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

    Synonyms:
    conducting wire, steel wire, thread, barbed wire, telegram, cable, telegraph

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wirenoun

   ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

   Antonyms:
   unwire

2. wire, conducting wirenoun

   a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

   Antonyms:
   unwire

3. wirenoun

   the finishing line on a racetrack

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

   Antonyms:
   unwire

4. telegram, wireverb

   a message transmitted by telegraph

   Synonyms:
   telegram, conducting wire

   Antonyms:
   unwire

5. wireverb

   provide with electrical circuits

   "wire the addition to the house"

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

6. cable, telegraph, wireverb

   send cables, wires, or telegrams

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

7. wireverb

   fasten with wire

   "The columns were wired to the beams for support"

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

8. wireverb

   string on a wire

   "wire beads"

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

9. electrify, wireverb

   equip for use with electricity

   "electrify an appliance"

   Synonyms:
   cable, telegraph, electrify

   Antonyms:
   unwire

Matched Categories

1. • Adapt
   • Equip
   • Fasten
   • Finishing Line
   • Ligament
   • String
   • Telecommunicate
   • Telegraphy

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wirenoun

   Synonyms:
   metallic thread

2. wireverb

   Synonyms:
   put upon a wire

3. wireverb

   Synonyms:
   bind with wire

4. wireverb

   Synonyms:
   ensnare by wires

5. wireverb

   Synonyms:
   [Modern.] telegraph, convey by electric telegraph, report by telegram

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "wire":

   cable, cord, cables, wires, yarn, wiring, thread, son, fil, lead, cords, telegraphic, cabling, telegram, rope, telegraph

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1. James HeslinJames Heslin:

   Everyone in Ireland knows someone or knows someone who knows someone who has gone through an abortion in England. The law (in Ireland) is trapping people into situations they don't want to be in. The wire is symbiotic.

2. Agnieszka Sieradzka:

   Some would be surprised that art existed in a place like that, in a place with crematories, but art was especially needed here behind the barbed wire, because the art could save a part of their human dignity, the art was a hope for a better future. The art was escape from the brutal reality of the camp to another, better world.

3. Edward Moya:

   This has been a disappointing week on many fronts, there’s been no progress on COVID aid relief talks in DC, we have Brexit, which is once again going to go down to the wire, and coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations are still at a staggering pace in the U.S. and it’s likely to lead to more restrictive measures and lockdowns.

4. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

5. Mark Hanson:

   It's a high-wire act for all of these guys right now.