Wire
- n. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
- 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.
- v. t. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
- v. t. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- v. t. To send (a message) by telegraph.
- v. i. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.