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wires
Stadia hairs Sta"di*a hairs or wires wires . (Surv.)
In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs
equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.
WireWire Wire, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[=i]rr, Dan.
vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
to E. withy. ????.]
1. 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.
Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
the drawplate, or between the rollers.
2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]
Wire bed, Wire mattress, an elastic bed bottom or
mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
various ways.
Wire bridge, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
of wire.
Wire cartridge, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
in a wire cage.
Wire cloth, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
used for strainers, and for various other purposes.
Wire edge, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
it.
Wire fence, a fence consisting of posts with strained
horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
between.
Wire gauge or gage.
(a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
plate with a series of notches of various widths in
its edge.
(b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
used in describing the size or thickness. There are
many different standards for wire gauges, as in
different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
being often used and designated by the abbreviations
B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.
Wire gauze, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
gauze.
Wire grass (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa
compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass.
Wire grub (Zo["o]l.), a wireworm.
Wire iron, wire rods of iron.
Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.
Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above.
Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
wires, across the field of the instrument.
Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
and pointed.
Wire netting, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
wire gauze.
Wire rod, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
Wire rope, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
wires. Wire
Wire Wire, v. i.
1. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a
tenuous stream. [R.] --P. Fletcher.
2. To send a telegraphic message. [Colloq.]
WireWire Wire, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wiring.]
1. To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to;
as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
2. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
3. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
4. To send (a message) by telegraph. [Colloq.] Wire
Wire Wire, v. t. (Croquet)
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a
successful shot.
Meaning of wires from wikipedia
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Third Day
Wire (
Wire album), a 2015
album by
Wire Wires (album), a 2001
album by Art of
Fighting "
Wires" (song), by Athlete, 2004 "The
Wire" (David Dallas...
- "Wiley:
WIREs Win
Three Prizes at the
PROSE Awards". wiley.com (Press release). Wiley-Blackwell. 2010-02-05.
Retrieved 2018-06-14. "About
WIREs".
WIREs Home...
- The
Wire is an
American crime drama television series created and
primarily written by
American author and
former police reporter David Simon for the cable...
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wired in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wired may
refer to:
Wired (Jeff Beck album), 1976
Wired (Hugh
Cornwell album), 1993
Wired (Mallory Knox...
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overhead wire. (Pantographs are
generally incompatible with
parallel overhead lines.) The
circuit is
completed by
using both
wires.
Parallel overhead wires are...
- A
wire is a flexible,
round bar of metal.
Wires are
commonly formed by
drawing the
metal through a hole in a die or draw plate.
Wire gauges come in various...
-
Wired has been in
publication since its
launch in
January 1993.
Several spin-offs have followed,
including Wired UK,
Wired Italia,
Wired ****an,
Wired...
- of Bare
Wires combine these seven songs onto a
single track with the
title "Bare
Wires Suite",
seemingly inspired by the
headline "Bare
Wires: A Suite...
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Wire-to-
wire is a term used in
competitive events and
sports for a
champion who
maintained the lead
during an
entire competition. The term
originated from...
- an LP
consisting mostly of dub
remixes of
Drums and
Wires tracks. In
later years,
Drums and
Wires became the best-known of XTC's albums. In 2004 it was...
