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Definition of hot-wire in English: hot-wireverb [with object]informal Start the engine of (a vehicle) by bypassing the ignition system, typically in order to steal it. 〈非正式〉（多为偷车）搭线点火发动 some of the children were hot-wiring cars Example sentencesExamples - After hot-wiring the car, he was on his way to his house.
- As the owner banged on the window, one of the thieves hot-wired the car, whilst the other made a rude gesture.
- Hot-wiring a plane, however, is easier than hot-wiring a car.
- This prevents an auto thief from engaging the transmission by hot-wiring or with an ignition key.
- He hot-wired the Caterpillar forklift after reading how to operate it in the local library.
- Between food-thievery, vehicle hot-wiring and gas-siphoning, Cowen jokes that he has learned a new set of skills.
- The mugger then hot-wired his Honda, and sped off towards Sukhumvit Road.
- A murder suspect being watched by detectives hot-wired the machine as officers were chatting, a national newspaper reported.
- He had taken the vehicle by hot-wiring it so he could visit his mother in Liverpool.
- From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
- He smashed off the plastic cowling surrounding the ignition lock and attempted to hot-wire the car but was unable to start it.
- The repossession company can hot-wire your car and drive it away from any location, as long as it doesn't illegally enter your locked garage or physically threaten you.
- Reports at the time included 50 cars being hot-wired and driven out of the showroom to be disembowelled for parts, and hundreds hospitalised after fires and fighting broke out.
- The fact is if one has an immobiliser, the easy way of hot-wiring a car is no longer possible, and one kills that crime stone dead.
- He hot-wires the car to start using the battery and the two wires.
- She hot-wired Brian's car and drove out of the garage.
- It was taken after a gang cut the padlock on the security gate and hot-wired the vehicle.
- She jumped onto the bus, sat down in the driver's seat, and hot-wired it expertly.
- ‘I was trying to protect you,’ he said as he opened the driver side door of the car she had hot-wired.
- One hot-wires the ignition while his partner, with the help of plastic, self-fastening pins, quickly attaches a pair of false number plates.
Definition of hot-wire in US English: hot-wireverbˈhɑt ˌwaɪ(ə)rˈhät ˌwī(ə)r [with object]informal Start the engine of (a vehicle) by bypassing the ignition system, typically in order to steal it. 〈非正式〉（多为偷车）搭线点火发动 Example sentencesExamples - Between food-thievery, vehicle hot-wiring and gas-siphoning, Cowen jokes that he has learned a new set of skills.
- She jumped onto the bus, sat down in the driver's seat, and hot-wired it expertly.
- He hot-wires the car to start using the battery and the two wires.
- After hot-wiring the car, he was on his way to his house.
- Hot-wiring a plane, however, is easier than hot-wiring a car.
- ‘I was trying to protect you,’ he said as he opened the driver side door of the car she had hot-wired.
- It was taken after a gang cut the padlock on the security gate and hot-wired the vehicle.
- He smashed off the plastic cowling surrounding the ignition lock and attempted to hot-wire the car but was unable to start it.
- She hot-wired Brian's car and drove out of the garage.
- From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
- This prevents an auto thief from engaging the transmission by hot-wiring or with an ignition key.
- The repossession company can hot-wire your car and drive it away from any location, as long as it doesn't illegally enter your locked garage or physically threaten you.
- One hot-wires the ignition while his partner, with the help of plastic, self-fastening pins, quickly attaches a pair of false number plates.
- He hot-wired the Caterpillar forklift after reading how to operate it in the local library.
- The mugger then hot-wired his Honda, and sped off towards Sukhumvit Road.
- As the owner banged on the window, one of the thieves hot-wired the car, whilst the other made a rude gesture.
- A murder suspect being watched by detectives hot-wired the machine as officers were chatting, a national newspaper reported.
- Reports at the time included 50 cars being hot-wired and driven out of the showroom to be disembowelled for parts, and hundreds hospitalised after fires and fighting broke out.
- The fact is if one has an immobiliser, the easy way of hot-wiring a car is no longer possible, and one kills that crime stone dead.
- He had taken the vehicle by hot-wiring it so he could visit his mother in Liverpool.
adjectiveˈhɑt ˌwaɪ(ə)rˈhät ˌwī(ə)r attributive (of an electrical instrument) depending on the expansion of a wire when heated or on a change in the electrical resistance of a wire when heated or cooled. （电器）热线式的，热电阻线的 热线式检波器。 Example sentencesExamples - This portable hot wire anemometer provides fast accurate reading with digital readability and is ideally suited for environmental testing.
- Today most PCMs measure airflow directly, using either a hot-wire or a hot-film airflow sensor.
- A hot-wire device designed as a gas-loaded heat pipe has been used to study the axial magnetic field influence on the heat transfer in a potassium vapor.
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