Definition of wire in English:

wire

noun wʌɪəˈwaɪ(ə)r

1mass noun Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.
金属丝，金属线
a coil of copper wire
as modifier a wire coat hanger
Example sentencesExamples
- Taylor suggested hanging fine wire nets or fishing line above the ground to confuse the geese but not hurt them.
- But ancient cultures were the first to realize the creative potential of wire as artists turned thin gold threads into jewelry.
- Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
- Gates invited local cattlemen to test their wildest longhorns against his new fencing material, crafted of nothing more than thin wire and metal barbs.
- He had an unruly mess of light brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes hidden behind thin golden wire glasses.
- The earliest chronographs used vacuum tubes for timing and a thin copper wire to start and stop.
- He vaulted the thin wire fence and ran along the railway line.
- Having very thin wire needles pushed into your skin and twiddled is a very bizarre experience.
- The finished aluminum coil may weigh only half as much as the equivalent copper wire coil.
- For a temporary installation, use thin wire or a pretty ribbon to hang the frame from a nail tacked discreetly above the mirror.
- Outside on the plaza lay piles of granite still to be put in place, pallets stacked up on the grass, and more rolls of copper wire yet to be slotted in to place.
- Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire.
- Many acupuncturists will use needles so fine they are like very thin wire, and are usually completely painless when inserted.
- Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough.
- As you place the sheet moss against the wire frame, attach it with thin wire, stitching the moss onto the frame with a traditional basting stitch.
- They claimed that vast quantities of gold and silver thread and wire for making lace were being regularly imported into Ireland.
- Others were woven with thin copper wire, creating a seductively shiny and semisolid surface.
- The twist ties were made of thin metal wire with a paper covering, and they rusted through after a few weeks.
- Wrap flexible but sturdy wire around one stake, up to the top of the post and staple it there.
- Most grain elevators have thin wire cables to check the temperature of the grain inside.
1. 1.1count noun A length or quantity of wire used to carry an electric current, for fencing, etc.
  线（如栅栏铁丝或电线）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry.
  The barbs are at the end of electrical wires carrying 50,000 volts.
  Abnormal cells are cut out using a heated wire with an electrical current running through it.
  Also, a wire that has a current flowing through it, may heat-up and cause the temperature to rise sufficiently to ignite materials.
  In 1802, Davy showed that artificial light was produced by passing electrical current through a platinum wire.
  Research is also being carried out in England into the possible use of tasers, which fire darts connected to a wire that carries an electrical current powerful enough to incapacitate the target.
  Do wires degenerate when electric current is passed through them?
  Iron creates the magnetic field and copper wires carry away the current generated.
  But I was wrong in my assumption, as there was no signs of wires bringing current to the house.
  Objecting to unsightly overhead wires to provide electric current, most British systems did not adopt electric traction until after 1900.
  Much as current flows through a wire, these impulses, known as action potentials, travel down the axon from its origin near the cell body to its terminal.
  Replacement of all old electric wires, poles and transformers to ensure a proper distribution of power to consumers had been ordered.
  And, like fuses, they're basically lengths of wire designed to carry a certain number of amps.
  To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current.
  Accordingly the current remained in the wires throughout the circuit so long as the main switch was on.
  Because they are so long and carry so much current, the wires store huge amounts of power in the electric and magnetic fields that surround them.
  The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity.
  He showed that a magnet could induce an electrical current in a wire.
  In the simplest case, the wires carrying the electrical signals are used to form an electromagnet which attracts and releases a metal diaphragm.
  As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables.
  Synonyms
  cable, lead, flex
2. 1.2usually the wireNorth American Horse racing A wire stretched across and above the start and finish of a racecourse.
  〈北美〉〔赛马〕起跑线；终点线
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pair fought furiously through Churchill's long stretch and were on nearly even terms at the wire and needed the photo finish camera to separate them.
  She finished five lengths behind Azeri at the wire.
  Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire.
2An electronic listening device that can be concealed on a person.
隐蔽式电子收听器
an undercover police informer who was wearing a wire
Example sentencesExamples
- And now she was here, doing what he'd asked while he listened on a wire.
3North American informal A telegram or cablegram.
〈非正式〉电报
Example sentencesExamples
- I frequently went down to the C&O Coloma depot, and spent time there listening in on the wire with agent Baker.
- Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation.

verb wʌɪəˈwaɪ(ə)r

[with object]

1Install electric circuits or wires in.
给…安装电线，给…安装线路
wiring a plug
给插头安上电线。
electricians wired up searchlights
电工们给探照灯安上电线。
Example sentencesExamples
- All the other rooms were lit by candles and kerosene, seeing as their building had not been wired with electricity yet.
- Electricians then wired the fiber to the company's office suite.
- However, far from being asleep, Seamus felt fully awake and annoyed at being wired up like an appliance.
- The polygraph, where you're - as you're aware, you have to be wired up to and it measures blood pressure, and heart rate and pulse and so on and so forth.
- Kelvingrove was one of the first public buildings to be wired for electricity, and many of the original cables remain.
- A dedicated entertainment room has been wired up for surround-sound speakers and other home-cinema goodies.
- Clays wired up the Christmas tree in the dormitory lounge so that the different frequencies of sound activated its red, green, blue and yellow lights.
- The machines at our disposal in the Home Ec room began their existence as treadle models that at some point had been wired for electricity.
- We wired up the tents to a generator and wired up all the shops to a switch that goes to another generator in case of power loss.
- Wooden decking runs around the back and side of the house and there is a large detached garage which is wired for electricity and includes a shower room.
- The first time that I realised I wanted to be an electronics engineer was when I rather foolishly wired up more than a few lightbulbs into a single plug with a three amp fuse and nearly blew a wall out of my parents' house.
- The granite-walled back garden is 29 feet long and 26 feet wide, and is in lawn with flowerbeds, shrubs and a wooden shed that has been wired for electricity.
- Matt took off down the corridors again, Mike in pursuit, heading for the balcony that would lead down to where the bombs had been wired up.
- The meeting discussed heating arrangements for the winter months and hope to get the prefab wired up for electricity during the next few weeks.
- I installed fifteen LEDs with resistors - they are all wired up on an extra USB port in the keyboard.
- A pathway leads to a workshop/utility room which is wired for electricity and plumbed for a washing machine.
- In a second visit they found cables and a junction box in the loft wired up to bypass the meter.
- Outside the house there is a detached garage with electric shutter and electricity wiring, while a cobbled driveway offers parking for six cars.
- The informer, who is wired up, is told by one of the News of the World team hidden in a nearby van to move aside so that the paper's photographer can get a clear view of the ‘gang’ to take a picture.
- We wired a small electric light in parallel with the circuit to the engine heater.
1. 1.1 Connect (someone or something) to a piece of electronic equipment.
  将（某人，某物）与电子设备相连
  a microphone wired to a loudspeaker
  连接在扬声器上的麦克风。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's also a USB 2.0 port to enable the unit to be wired up to a PC, to which it appears as a generic USB Mass Storage device.
  Those taking part in this show will be wired up to a small microphone, including the directors, so that everything will be heard during the filming.
  We were told that we would be wired up with a mic and put in front of the camera and hit with a few questions.
  The flash trigger is wired to the shutter mechanism.
  Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail.
  Thirty years ago, in the midst of a double-barrelled open-heart surgery, I suffered a complete heart block and was wired up to an external pacemaker.
  They were wired to remote recorders located in separate rooms.
  There's no point buying several grands' worth of audiophile equipment only to wire it up to cheap speakers.
  If you start wiring your computer equipment up to your video equipment its not long before everything disappears under a mountain of leads and power cables.
  During the operation, the most technical performed on a child of her age, Beth was wired up to a by-pass machine to keep her damaged heart beating, while the artery was widened to allow more oxygen to reach her heart.
  All the houses in Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham, will be wired up to the net via the latest TV set-top box, as part of a £10m national campaign.
  If wiring the wine cellar for an Internet connection seems like overkill, consider the possibilities for the pampered homeowner.
  It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard handphone concealed in his pocket.
  An alternative solution is a system that has a beeper / LED lights mounted in the C pillar (alongside the rear windscreen) wired up to the sensors.
  Although he has been told he would be unlikely to win a patent for wiring a vintage receiver to a handphone, he thinks he can turn it into a design-driven business.
  Only after a search revealed watches wired to a circuit board did anyone suspect a bomb.
  The patient sat with both feet and arms in saline baths and was wired up to the machine.
  Electronic components are then wired on to the device to process information that it senses or to drive the movement of its mechanical parts.
2Provide, fasten, or reinforce with wires.
用金属线固定（或加固）
they wired his jaw
他们把他的下颌用金属丝加固。
Example sentencesExamples
- Later, lying in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, Uncle Tap complained to Dennis that his nocturnal activities had been curtailed.
- Sharon's injuries required several visits to hospital, and she had to have her jaw wired after a serious infection.
- Is it necessary for the jaw to be wired shut afterward?
- After all, it's hard to do a reading with your jaw wired shut.
- Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days.
3North American informal Send a telegram or cablegram to.
〈非正式〉电报
she wired her friend for advice
她打电报给朋友寻求建议。
Example sentencesExamples
- As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living.
1. 3.1with two objects Send (money) to (someone) by means of a telegram or cablegram.
  把（钱）电汇给（某人）
  he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500
  他正等着澳大利亚的一个朋友给他电汇1，500美金。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead he is unable to clear up suspicions that he embezzled funds and wired large sums of money to the US.
  There seemed no option but to get money wired to me from the UK.
  They can have the money wired to their bank account, they can open an account with a specified bank, or they can pick up their winnings personally.
  These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States.
  Sometimes the money was sent offshore then wired back later.
4Snare (an animal) with wire.
用金属网诱捕（动物）
5Croquet
Obstruct (a ball, shot, or player) by a hoop.
〔槌球〕在拱门边阻挡（球，射球，选手）

Phrases

by wire

By telegraph.
用电报，通过电报
he conducted business by wire
Example sentencesExamples
- For many decades into the late 20th Century, the railway relied on a daily time signal from the Dominion Observatory, sent by wire all across Canada.
- In the near future, the 1932 edition predicted, ‘we shall receive pictures by wire, as is already being done by one or two newspapers’.
- We notified Hopkins by wire about the letters and then went back to Baker Street to wait.

down to the wire

informal Used to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last minute.
〈非正式〉到最后一刻；直至最后；最终
it was probable that the test of nerves would go down to the wire
对意志力的考验很可能会一直持续到最后。
Example sentencesExamples
- Many games especially those with playoff implications will go right down to the wire and be decided by a handful of points.
- It could go down to the wire, but the Swedes could just hold their nerve best either in extra-time or penalties.
- The game went down to the wire, each team trading baskets until we were tied at 80.
- For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting.
- Then again there's another 10 months to go so it's hardly down to the wire!
- But it will go down to the wire, and I think it'll be a very exciting month that we've got ahead of us.
- Roughly half the population will find that a sufficient reason to vote for him, and the election will go down to the wire.
- Malls, merriment and mayhem - for Brittany, Christmas shopping was down to the wire.
- I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire.
- It's getting down to the wire at the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong.

the straight wire

informal The honest truth.
you'll remember what I say and know it's the straight wire
Example sentencesExamples
- I'd even make it for the Olympics if I had the least urging, and that's the straight wire, honest to dinkum!
- If he came any of his law-de-dah squatter funny business on me I'd give him the straight wire, I promise you.
- I won't wag me chin no more just yet; but this is the straight wire.

under the wire

informal At the last possible opportunity; just in time.
〈北美，非正式〉在最后期限之前；及时，刚好赶上
the team got into the playoffs just under the wire
Example sentencesExamples
- As she galloped under the wire, the seven-year-old daughter of Desert King eclipsed the Australian earnings record held by three-time Horse of the Year Sunline.
- I'm getting in just under the wire, which pleases me, as I generally leave things of this ilk till it is far too late for me to remedy the situation.
- Then there are those who come softly, slipping so silently under the wire that, if you don't look hard enough, can easily be mistaken for the status quo.
- He called the place and just barely made it under the wire for the deadline for an interview.
- And the art was good enough that no-one's grumbling about how late it was, even though it really came in just under the wire, and I'm madly rewriting to make it work.
- I know that you hate how they get their payments in just under the wire.
- Deadline's tomorrow, and I won't be slipping in under the wire.
- ‘I just got in under the wire, age-wise,’ she says.
- Find out how new procedures might squeeze in under the wire in our ‘Brainstorm’ segment.
- Could 2006 be the year when I stop skidding under the wire at the last minute and begin a systematic plan of action, ticking off life's events with time to spare, instead?
Synonyms
just in time, not a moment too soon, almost too late, at the critical moment

Derivatives

wirer

noun

Our electrical wirers are also capable of carrying out electrical conversion work.
Example sentencesExamples
- After one or two years of satisfactory performance, frame wirers may be selected to train for a more skilled job such as that of test desk technician or central office repairer.
- An Opportunity has arisen in the Coventry area for a skilled wirer that involves working with injection mould machines.

Origin

Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere 'plait, weave'.

The base of wire probably meant ‘to plait or weave’. In the 1850s people started taking or sending a message by wire, or by telegraph. If a situation goes down to the wire its outcome is not decided until the very last minute. This expression originated in the USA in the late 19th century and comes from the world of horse racing. Racecourses there have a wire stretched across and above the finishing line: a race that goes down to the wire is one in which the horses are neck and neck right to the finish.

Rhymes

acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah

Definition of wire in US English:

wire

nounˈwaɪ(ə)rˈwī(ə)r

1Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.
金属丝，金属线
Example sentencesExamples
- Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough.
- As you place the sheet moss against the wire frame, attach it with thin wire, stitching the moss onto the frame with a traditional basting stitch.
- Having very thin wire needles pushed into your skin and twiddled is a very bizarre experience.
- The finished aluminum coil may weigh only half as much as the equivalent copper wire coil.
- Gates invited local cattlemen to test their wildest longhorns against his new fencing material, crafted of nothing more than thin wire and metal barbs.
- Wrap flexible but sturdy wire around one stake, up to the top of the post and staple it there.
- The twist ties were made of thin metal wire with a paper covering, and they rusted through after a few weeks.
- He had an unruly mess of light brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes hidden behind thin golden wire glasses.
- Others were woven with thin copper wire, creating a seductively shiny and semisolid surface.
- For a temporary installation, use thin wire or a pretty ribbon to hang the frame from a nail tacked discreetly above the mirror.
- He vaulted the thin wire fence and ran along the railway line.
- They claimed that vast quantities of gold and silver thread and wire for making lace were being regularly imported into Ireland.
- Most grain elevators have thin wire cables to check the temperature of the grain inside.
- The earliest chronographs used vacuum tubes for timing and a thin copper wire to start and stop.
- Many acupuncturists will use needles so fine they are like very thin wire, and are usually completely painless when inserted.
- Outside on the plaza lay piles of granite still to be put in place, pallets stacked up on the grass, and more rolls of copper wire yet to be slotted in to place.
- Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
- Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire.
- But ancient cultures were the first to realize the creative potential of wire as artists turned thin gold threads into jewelry.
- Taylor suggested hanging fine wire nets or fishing line above the ground to confuse the geese but not hurt them.
1. 1.1 A piece of wire.
  （一段）金属丝
  Example sentencesExamples
  I just needed a piece of wire, or a stick or something.
  For antennae, cut a 3-inch piece of plastic-coated wire, bend in half, and curl the ends.
  Fasten the roses to your foam ring by taking short pieces of wire and pushing one end up the stem and into the base of the rose.
  The pots of all shade treatment plants were fitted with a wire frame consisting of two 46 cm pieces of metal wire that were bent into a U-shape.
  I pulled out my piece of stiff metal wire and inserted it into the small keyhole on the outside of the door.
  Add a piece of wire to the top of the chain, and make a loop for hanging.
  Then she took off the ring I had given her, and unwound the foil, then rolled it between her hands into a long piece of silver wire.
  The easiest way to check this is with a long screwdriver or stiff piece of wire, such as a straightened-out coat hanger.
  You can also turn them into candle lanterns by twisting wire around the top of the jar and then fashioning a hanging loop from the same piece of wire.
  I once knew of a guy getting his wrist dislocated because a piece of wire got tangled up in a shackle and around his hand at the same time.
  Barry was an older, but still very beefy and hairy ex-driller, with thick glasses repaired and re-repaired with bits and pieces of wire.
  It was the same effect as bending a piece of wire back and forth - eventually it snaps.
  This was a large empty corned beef tin, which had holes punched in the top and a piece of wire placed to make it easy to carry.
  Wrap the end of a piece of wire around a galvanized nail and wrap the end of a second piece of wire around a penny.
  Thinking quickly, Brian used a piece of wire to hook the keys from inside the car.
  An initial demonstration about how to manipulate, form and attach two pieces of wire was all that was needed to make these figures come alive.
  To obtain out-of-reach food, the crow repeatedly took a piece of straight wire and bent it to create a hook.
  Kneeling down next to the door so that the keyhole was on eye level, I produced the piece of wire and file that he'd given me and proceeded to try my hand at picking the lock.
  If you have to cultivate in wet conditions, twisting a piece of wire around the shovel can help break up the slabs of dirt.
  Diagonal pliers or ‘dikes’ are actually intended to cut pieces of wire or small metal hardware like pins or nails.
2. 1.2 A length or quantity of wire used, for example, for fencing or to carry an electric current.
  线（如栅栏铁丝或电线）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The barbs are at the end of electrical wires carrying 50,000 volts.
  Research is also being carried out in England into the possible use of tasers, which fire darts connected to a wire that carries an electrical current powerful enough to incapacitate the target.
  Also, a wire that has a current flowing through it, may heat-up and cause the temperature to rise sufficiently to ignite materials.
  The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity.
  Accordingly the current remained in the wires throughout the circuit so long as the main switch was on.
  In the simplest case, the wires carrying the electrical signals are used to form an electromagnet which attracts and releases a metal diaphragm.
  Objecting to unsightly overhead wires to provide electric current, most British systems did not adopt electric traction until after 1900.
  Because they are so long and carry so much current, the wires store huge amounts of power in the electric and magnetic fields that surround them.
  But I was wrong in my assumption, as there was no signs of wires bringing current to the house.
  To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current.
  Replacement of all old electric wires, poles and transformers to ensure a proper distribution of power to consumers had been ordered.
  Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry.
  And, like fuses, they're basically lengths of wire designed to carry a certain number of amps.
  Do wires degenerate when electric current is passed through them?
  Abnormal cells are cut out using a heated wire with an electrical current running through it.
  As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables.
  In 1802, Davy showed that artificial light was produced by passing electrical current through a platinum wire.
  Iron creates the magnetic field and copper wires carry away the current generated.
  Much as current flows through a wire, these impulses, known as action potentials, travel down the axon from its origin near the cell body to its terminal.
  He showed that a magnet could induce an electrical current in a wire.
  Synonyms
  cable, lead, flex
3. 1.3North American Horse racing A wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line of a racetrack.
  〈北美〉〔赛马〕起跑线；终点线
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire.
  She finished five lengths behind Azeri at the wire.
  The pair fought furiously through Churchill's long stretch and were on nearly even terms at the wire and needed the photo finish camera to separate them.
2An electronic listening device that can be concealed on a person.
隐蔽式电子收听器
Example sentencesExamples
- And now she was here, doing what he'd asked while he listened on a wire.
3North American informal A telegram or cablegram.
〈非正式〉电报
Example sentencesExamples
- Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation.
- I frequently went down to the C&O Coloma depot, and spent time there listening in on the wire with agent Baker.

verbˈwaɪ(ə)rˈwī(ə)r

[with object]

1Install electric circuits or wires in.
给…安装电线，给…安装线路
wiring a plug
给插头安上电线。
they wired the place themselves
Example sentencesExamples
- The first time that I realised I wanted to be an electronics engineer was when I rather foolishly wired up more than a few lightbulbs into a single plug with a three amp fuse and nearly blew a wall out of my parents' house.
- Outside the house there is a detached garage with electric shutter and electricity wiring, while a cobbled driveway offers parking for six cars.
- We wired up the tents to a generator and wired up all the shops to a switch that goes to another generator in case of power loss.
- Clays wired up the Christmas tree in the dormitory lounge so that the different frequencies of sound activated its red, green, blue and yellow lights.
- Electricians then wired the fiber to the company's office suite.
- The meeting discussed heating arrangements for the winter months and hope to get the prefab wired up for electricity during the next few weeks.
- The polygraph, where you're - as you're aware, you have to be wired up to and it measures blood pressure, and heart rate and pulse and so on and so forth.
- Kelvingrove was one of the first public buildings to be wired for electricity, and many of the original cables remain.
- A pathway leads to a workshop/utility room which is wired for electricity and plumbed for a washing machine.
- We wired a small electric light in parallel with the circuit to the engine heater.
- Wooden decking runs around the back and side of the house and there is a large detached garage which is wired for electricity and includes a shower room.
- All the other rooms were lit by candles and kerosene, seeing as their building had not been wired with electricity yet.
- The informer, who is wired up, is told by one of the News of the World team hidden in a nearby van to move aside so that the paper's photographer can get a clear view of the ‘gang’ to take a picture.
- I installed fifteen LEDs with resistors - they are all wired up on an extra USB port in the keyboard.
- In a second visit they found cables and a junction box in the loft wired up to bypass the meter.
- The machines at our disposal in the Home Ec room began their existence as treadle models that at some point had been wired for electricity.
- However, far from being asleep, Seamus felt fully awake and annoyed at being wired up like an appliance.
- A dedicated entertainment room has been wired up for surround-sound speakers and other home-cinema goodies.
- Matt took off down the corridors again, Mike in pursuit, heading for the balcony that would lead down to where the bombs had been wired up.
- The granite-walled back garden is 29 feet long and 26 feet wide, and is in lawn with flowerbeds, shrubs and a wooden shed that has been wired for electricity.
1. 1.1 Connect (someone or something) to a piece of electronic equipment.
  将（某人，某物）与电子设备相连
  a microphone wired to a loudspeaker
  连接在扬声器上的麦克风。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were wired to remote recorders located in separate rooms.
  During the operation, the most technical performed on a child of her age, Beth was wired up to a by-pass machine to keep her damaged heart beating, while the artery was widened to allow more oxygen to reach her heart.
  Electronic components are then wired on to the device to process information that it senses or to drive the movement of its mechanical parts.
  Although he has been told he would be unlikely to win a patent for wiring a vintage receiver to a handphone, he thinks he can turn it into a design-driven business.
  There's also a USB 2.0 port to enable the unit to be wired up to a PC, to which it appears as a generic USB Mass Storage device.
  There's no point buying several grands' worth of audiophile equipment only to wire it up to cheap speakers.
  All the houses in Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham, will be wired up to the net via the latest TV set-top box, as part of a £10m national campaign.
  An alternative solution is a system that has a beeper / LED lights mounted in the C pillar (alongside the rear windscreen) wired up to the sensors.
  The patient sat with both feet and arms in saline baths and was wired up to the machine.
  If wiring the wine cellar for an Internet connection seems like overkill, consider the possibilities for the pampered homeowner.
  The flash trigger is wired to the shutter mechanism.
  Only after a search revealed watches wired to a circuit board did anyone suspect a bomb.
  Those taking part in this show will be wired up to a small microphone, including the directors, so that everything will be heard during the filming.
  It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard handphone concealed in his pocket.
  Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail.
  If you start wiring your computer equipment up to your video equipment its not long before everything disappears under a mountain of leads and power cables.
  We were told that we would be wired up with a mic and put in front of the camera and hit with a few questions.
  Thirty years ago, in the midst of a double-barrelled open-heart surgery, I suffered a complete heart block and was wired up to an external pacemaker.
2Provide, fasten, or reinforce with wires.
用金属线固定（或加固）
they wired his jaw
他们把他的下颌用金属丝加固。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sharon's injuries required several visits to hospital, and she had to have her jaw wired after a serious infection.
- Is it necessary for the jaw to be wired shut afterward?
- After all, it's hard to do a reading with your jaw wired shut.
- Later, lying in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, Uncle Tap complained to Dennis that his nocturnal activities had been curtailed.
- Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days.
3North American informal Send a telegram or cablegram to.
〈非正式〉电报
she wired her friend for advice
她打电报给朋友寻求建议。
Example sentencesExamples
- As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living.
1. 3.1with two objects Send (money) to (someone) by means of a telegram or cablegram.
  把（钱）电汇给（某人）
  he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500
  他正等着澳大利亚的一个朋友给他电汇1，500美金。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States.
  Instead he is unable to clear up suspicions that he embezzled funds and wired large sums of money to the US.
  They can have the money wired to their bank account, they can open an account with a specified bank, or they can pick up their winnings personally.
  There seemed no option but to get money wired to me from the UK.
  Sometimes the money was sent offshore then wired back later.
4Snare (an animal) with wire.
用金属网诱捕（动物）
5Croquet
Obstruct (a ball, shot, or player) by a wicket.
〔槌球〕在拱门边阻挡（球，射球，选手）

Phrases

by wire

By telegraph.
用电报，通过电报
Example sentencesExamples
- For many decades into the late 20th Century, the railway relied on a daily time signal from the Dominion Observatory, sent by wire all across Canada.
- We notified Hopkins by wire about the letters and then went back to Baker Street to wait.
- In the near future, the 1932 edition predicted, ‘we shall receive pictures by wire, as is already being done by one or two newspapers’.

down to the wire

informal Used to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last minute.
〈非正式〉到最后一刻；直至最后；最终
it was probable that the test of nerves would go down to the wire
对意志力的考验很可能会一直持续到最后。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's getting down to the wire at the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong.
- It could go down to the wire, but the Swedes could just hold their nerve best either in extra-time or penalties.
- But it will go down to the wire, and I think it'll be a very exciting month that we've got ahead of us.
- Then again there's another 10 months to go so it's hardly down to the wire!
- Malls, merriment and mayhem - for Brittany, Christmas shopping was down to the wire.
- I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire.
- For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting.
- The game went down to the wire, each team trading baskets until we were tied at 80.
- Many games especially those with playoff implications will go right down to the wire and be decided by a handful of points.
- Roughly half the population will find that a sufficient reason to vote for him, and the election will go down to the wire.

under the wire

informal At the last possible opportunity; just in time.
〈北美，非正式〉在最后期限之前；及时，刚好赶上
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I just got in under the wire, age-wise,’ she says.
- I know that you hate how they get their payments in just under the wire.
- As she galloped under the wire, the seven-year-old daughter of Desert King eclipsed the Australian earnings record held by three-time Horse of the Year Sunline.
- And the art was good enough that no-one's grumbling about how late it was, even though it really came in just under the wire, and I'm madly rewriting to make it work.
- He called the place and just barely made it under the wire for the deadline for an interview.
- Find out how new procedures might squeeze in under the wire in our ‘Brainstorm’ segment.
- Deadline's tomorrow, and I won't be slipping in under the wire.
- I'm getting in just under the wire, which pleases me, as I generally leave things of this ilk till it is far too late for me to remedy the situation.
- Could 2006 be the year when I stop skidding under the wire at the last minute and begin a systematic plan of action, ticking off life's events with time to spare, instead?
- Then there are those who come softly, slipping so silently under the wire that, if you don't look hard enough, can easily be mistaken for the status quo.
Synonyms
just in time, not a moment too soon, almost too late, at the critical moment

Origin

Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere ‘plait, weave’.

单词	wire
释义	Definition of wire in English: wire noun wʌɪəˈwaɪ(ə)r 1mass noun Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod. 金属丝，金属线 a coil of copper wire as modifier a wire coat hanger Example sentencesExamples Taylor suggested hanging fine wire nets or fishing line above the ground to confuse the geese but not hurt them. But ancient cultures were the first to realize the creative potential of wire as artists turned thin gold threads into jewelry. Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front. Gates invited local cattlemen to test their wildest longhorns against his new fencing material, crafted of nothing more than thin wire and metal barbs. He had an unruly mess of light brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes hidden behind thin golden wire glasses. The earliest chronographs used vacuum tubes for timing and a thin copper wire to start and stop. He vaulted the thin wire fence and ran along the railway line. Having very thin wire needles pushed into your skin and twiddled is a very bizarre experience. The finished aluminum coil may weigh only half as much as the equivalent copper wire coil. For a temporary installation, use thin wire or a pretty ribbon to hang the frame from a nail tacked discreetly above the mirror. Outside on the plaza lay piles of granite still to be put in place, pallets stacked up on the grass, and more rolls of copper wire yet to be slotted in to place. Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire. Many acupuncturists will use needles so fine they are like very thin wire, and are usually completely painless when inserted. Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough. As you place the sheet moss against the wire frame, attach it with thin wire, stitching the moss onto the frame with a traditional basting stitch. They claimed that vast quantities of gold and silver thread and wire for making lace were being regularly imported into Ireland. Others were woven with thin copper wire, creating a seductively shiny and semisolid surface. The twist ties were made of thin metal wire with a paper covering, and they rusted through after a few weeks. Wrap flexible but sturdy wire around one stake, up to the top of the post and staple it there. Most grain elevators have thin wire cables to check the temperature of the grain inside. 1.1count noun A length or quantity of wire used to carry an electric current, for fencing, etc. 线（如栅栏铁丝或电线） Example sentencesExamples Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry. The barbs are at the end of electrical wires carrying 50,000 volts. Abnormal cells are cut out using a heated wire with an electrical current running through it. Also, a wire that has a current flowing through it, may heat-up and cause the temperature to rise sufficiently to ignite materials. In 1802, Davy showed that artificial light was produced by passing electrical current through a platinum wire. Research is also being carried out in England into the possible use of tasers, which fire darts connected to a wire that carries an electrical current powerful enough to incapacitate the target. Do wires degenerate when electric current is passed through them? Iron creates the magnetic field and copper wires carry away the current generated. But I was wrong in my assumption, as there was no signs of wires bringing current to the house. Objecting to unsightly overhead wires to provide electric current, most British systems did not adopt electric traction until after 1900. Much as current flows through a wire, these impulses, known as action potentials, travel down the axon from its origin near the cell body to its terminal. Replacement of all old electric wires, poles and transformers to ensure a proper distribution of power to consumers had been ordered. And, like fuses, they're basically lengths of wire designed to carry a certain number of amps. To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current. Accordingly the current remained in the wires throughout the circuit so long as the main switch was on. Because they are so long and carry so much current, the wires store huge amounts of power in the electric and magnetic fields that surround them. The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity. He showed that a magnet could induce an electrical current in a wire. In the simplest case, the wires carrying the electrical signals are used to form an electromagnet which attracts and releases a metal diaphragm. As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables. Synonyms cable, lead, flex 1.2usually the wireNorth American Horse racing A wire stretched across and above the start and finish of a racecourse. 〈北美〉〔赛马〕起跑线；终点线 Example sentencesExamples The pair fought furiously through Churchill's long stretch and were on nearly even terms at the wire and needed the photo finish camera to separate them. She finished five lengths behind Azeri at the wire. Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire. 2An electronic listening device that can be concealed on a person. 隐蔽式电子收听器 an undercover police informer who was wearing a wire Example sentencesExamples And now she was here, doing what he'd asked while he listened on a wire. 3North American informal A telegram or cablegram. 〈非正式〉电报 Example sentencesExamples I frequently went down to the C&O Coloma depot, and spent time there listening in on the wire with agent Baker. Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation. verb wʌɪəˈwaɪ(ə)r [with object] 1Install electric circuits or wires in. 给…安装电线，给…安装线路 wiring a plug 给插头安上电线。 electricians wired up searchlights 电工们给探照灯安上电线。 Example sentencesExamples All the other rooms were lit by candles and kerosene, seeing as their building had not been wired with electricity yet. Electricians then wired the fiber to the company's office suite. However, far from being asleep, Seamus felt fully awake and annoyed at being wired up like an appliance. The polygraph, where you're - as you're aware, you have to be wired up to and it measures blood pressure, and heart rate and pulse and so on and so forth. Kelvingrove was one of the first public buildings to be wired for electricity, and many of the original cables remain. A dedicated entertainment room has been wired up for surround-sound speakers and other home-cinema goodies. Clays wired up the Christmas tree in the dormitory lounge so that the different frequencies of sound activated its red, green, blue and yellow lights. The machines at our disposal in the Home Ec room began their existence as treadle models that at some point had been wired for electricity. We wired up the tents to a generator and wired up all the shops to a switch that goes to another generator in case of power loss. Wooden decking runs around the back and side of the house and there is a large detached garage which is wired for electricity and includes a shower room. The first time that I realised I wanted to be an electronics engineer was when I rather foolishly wired up more than a few lightbulbs into a single plug with a three amp fuse and nearly blew a wall out of my parents' house. The granite-walled back garden is 29 feet long and 26 feet wide, and is in lawn with flowerbeds, shrubs and a wooden shed that has been wired for electricity. Matt took off down the corridors again, Mike in pursuit, heading for the balcony that would lead down to where the bombs had been wired up. The meeting discussed heating arrangements for the winter months and hope to get the prefab wired up for electricity during the next few weeks. I installed fifteen LEDs with resistors - they are all wired up on an extra USB port in the keyboard. A pathway leads to a workshop/utility room which is wired for electricity and plumbed for a washing machine. In a second visit they found cables and a junction box in the loft wired up to bypass the meter. Outside the house there is a detached garage with electric shutter and electricity wiring, while a cobbled driveway offers parking for six cars. The informer, who is wired up, is told by one of the News of the World team hidden in a nearby van to move aside so that the paper's photographer can get a clear view of the ‘gang’ to take a picture. We wired a small electric light in parallel with the circuit to the engine heater. 1.1 Connect (someone or something) to a piece of electronic equipment. 将（某人，某物）与电子设备相连 a microphone wired to a loudspeaker 连接在扬声器上的麦克风。 Example sentencesExamples There's also a USB 2.0 port to enable the unit to be wired up to a PC, to which it appears as a generic USB Mass Storage device. Those taking part in this show will be wired up to a small microphone, including the directors, so that everything will be heard during the filming. We were told that we would be wired up with a mic and put in front of the camera and hit with a few questions. The flash trigger is wired to the shutter mechanism. Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail. Thirty years ago, in the midst of a double-barrelled open-heart surgery, I suffered a complete heart block and was wired up to an external pacemaker. They were wired to remote recorders located in separate rooms. There's no point buying several grands' worth of audiophile equipment only to wire it up to cheap speakers. If you start wiring your computer equipment up to your video equipment its not long before everything disappears under a mountain of leads and power cables. During the operation, the most technical performed on a child of her age, Beth was wired up to a by-pass machine to keep her damaged heart beating, while the artery was widened to allow more oxygen to reach her heart. All the houses in Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham, will be wired up to the net via the latest TV set-top box, as part of a £10m national campaign. If wiring the wine cellar for an Internet connection seems like overkill, consider the possibilities for the pampered homeowner. It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard handphone concealed in his pocket. An alternative solution is a system that has a beeper / LED lights mounted in the C pillar (alongside the rear windscreen) wired up to the sensors. Although he has been told he would be unlikely to win a patent for wiring a vintage receiver to a handphone, he thinks he can turn it into a design-driven business. Only after a search revealed watches wired to a circuit board did anyone suspect a bomb. The patient sat with both feet and arms in saline baths and was wired up to the machine. Electronic components are then wired on to the device to process information that it senses or to drive the movement of its mechanical parts. 2Provide, fasten, or reinforce with wires. 用金属线固定（或加固） they wired his jaw 他们把他的下颌用金属丝加固。 Example sentencesExamples Later, lying in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, Uncle Tap complained to Dennis that his nocturnal activities had been curtailed. Sharon's injuries required several visits to hospital, and she had to have her jaw wired after a serious infection. Is it necessary for the jaw to be wired shut afterward? After all, it's hard to do a reading with your jaw wired shut. Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days. 3North American informal Send a telegram or cablegram to. 〈非正式〉电报 she wired her friend for advice 她打电报给朋友寻求建议。 Example sentencesExamples As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living. 3.1with two objects Send (money) to (someone) by means of a telegram or cablegram. 把（钱）电汇给（某人） he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500 他正等着澳大利亚的一个朋友给他电汇1，500美金。 Example sentencesExamples Instead he is unable to clear up suspicions that he embezzled funds and wired large sums of money to the US. There seemed no option but to get money wired to me from the UK. They can have the money wired to their bank account, they can open an account with a specified bank, or they can pick up their winnings personally. These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States. Sometimes the money was sent offshore then wired back later. 4Snare (an animal) with wire. 用金属网诱捕（动物） 5Croquet Obstruct (a ball, shot, or player) by a hoop. 〔槌球〕在拱门边阻挡（球，射球，选手） Phrases by wire By telegraph. 用电报，通过电报 he conducted business by wire Example sentencesExamples For many decades into the late 20th Century, the railway relied on a daily time signal from the Dominion Observatory, sent by wire all across Canada. In the near future, the 1932 edition predicted, ‘we shall receive pictures by wire, as is already being done by one or two newspapers’. We notified Hopkins by wire about the letters and then went back to Baker Street to wait. down to the wire informal Used to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last minute. 〈非正式〉到最后一刻；直至最后；最终 it was probable that the test of nerves would go down to the wire 对意志力的考验很可能会一直持续到最后。 Example sentencesExamples Many games especially those with playoff implications will go right down to the wire and be decided by a handful of points. It could go down to the wire, but the Swedes could just hold their nerve best either in extra-time or penalties. The game went down to the wire, each team trading baskets until we were tied at 80. For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting. Then again there's another 10 months to go so it's hardly down to the wire! But it will go down to the wire, and I think it'll be a very exciting month that we've got ahead of us. Roughly half the population will find that a sufficient reason to vote for him, and the election will go down to the wire. Malls, merriment and mayhem - for Brittany, Christmas shopping was down to the wire. I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire. It's getting down to the wire at the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong. the straight wire informal The honest truth. you'll remember what I say and know it's the straight wire Example sentencesExamples I'd even make it for the Olympics if I had the least urging, and that's the straight wire, honest to dinkum! If he came any of his law-de-dah squatter funny business on me I'd give him the straight wire, I promise you. I won't wag me chin no more just yet; but this is the straight wire. under the wire informal At the last possible opportunity; just in time. 〈北美，非正式〉在最后期限之前；及时，刚好赶上 the team got into the playoffs just under the wire Example sentencesExamples As she galloped under the wire, the seven-year-old daughter of Desert King eclipsed the Australian earnings record held by three-time Horse of the Year Sunline. I'm getting in just under the wire, which pleases me, as I generally leave things of this ilk till it is far too late for me to remedy the situation. Then there are those who come softly, slipping so silently under the wire that, if you don't look hard enough, can easily be mistaken for the status quo. He called the place and just barely made it under the wire for the deadline for an interview. And the art was good enough that no-one's grumbling about how late it was, even though it really came in just under the wire, and I'm madly rewriting to make it work. I know that you hate how they get their payments in just under the wire. Deadline's tomorrow, and I won't be slipping in under the wire. ‘I just got in under the wire, age-wise,’ she says. Find out how new procedures might squeeze in under the wire in our ‘Brainstorm’ segment. Could 2006 be the year when I stop skidding under the wire at the last minute and begin a systematic plan of action, ticking off life's events with time to spare, instead? Synonyms just in time, not a moment too soon, almost too late, at the critical moment Derivatives wirer noun Our electrical wirers are also capable of carrying out electrical conversion work. Example sentencesExamples After one or two years of satisfactory performance, frame wirers may be selected to train for a more skilled job such as that of test desk technician or central office repairer. An Opportunity has arisen in the Coventry area for a skilled wirer that involves working with injection mould machines. Origin Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere 'plait, weave'. The base of wire probably meant ‘to plait or weave’. In the 1850s people started taking or sending a message by wire, or by telegraph. If a situation goes down to the wire its outcome is not decided until the very last minute. This expression originated in the USA in the late 19th century and comes from the world of horse racing. Racecourses there have a wire stretched across and above the finishing line: a race that goes down to the wire is one in which the horses are neck and neck right to the finish. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah noun.1 phr. Definition of wire in US English: wire nounˈwaɪ(ə)rˈwī(ə)r 1Metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod. 金属丝，金属线 Example sentencesExamples Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough. As you place the sheet moss against the wire frame, attach it with thin wire, stitching the moss onto the frame with a traditional basting stitch. Having very thin wire needles pushed into your skin and twiddled is a very bizarre experience. The finished aluminum coil may weigh only half as much as the equivalent copper wire coil. Gates invited local cattlemen to test their wildest longhorns against his new fencing material, crafted of nothing more than thin wire and metal barbs. Wrap flexible but sturdy wire around one stake, up to the top of the post and staple it there. The twist ties were made of thin metal wire with a paper covering, and they rusted through after a few weeks. He had an unruly mess of light brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes hidden behind thin golden wire glasses. Others were woven with thin copper wire, creating a seductively shiny and semisolid surface. For a temporary installation, use thin wire or a pretty ribbon to hang the frame from a nail tacked discreetly above the mirror. He vaulted the thin wire fence and ran along the railway line. They claimed that vast quantities of gold and silver thread and wire for making lace were being regularly imported into Ireland. Most grain elevators have thin wire cables to check the temperature of the grain inside. The earliest chronographs used vacuum tubes for timing and a thin copper wire to start and stop. Many acupuncturists will use needles so fine they are like very thin wire, and are usually completely painless when inserted. Outside on the plaza lay piles of granite still to be put in place, pallets stacked up on the grass, and more rolls of copper wire yet to be slotted in to place. Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front. Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire. But ancient cultures were the first to realize the creative potential of wire as artists turned thin gold threads into jewelry. Taylor suggested hanging fine wire nets or fishing line above the ground to confuse the geese but not hurt them. 1.1 A piece of wire. （一段）金属丝 Example sentencesExamples I just needed a piece of wire, or a stick or something. For antennae, cut a 3-inch piece of plastic-coated wire, bend in half, and curl the ends. Fasten the roses to your foam ring by taking short pieces of wire and pushing one end up the stem and into the base of the rose. The pots of all shade treatment plants were fitted with a wire frame consisting of two 46 cm pieces of metal wire that were bent into a U-shape. I pulled out my piece of stiff metal wire and inserted it into the small keyhole on the outside of the door. Add a piece of wire to the top of the chain, and make a loop for hanging. Then she took off the ring I had given her, and unwound the foil, then rolled it between her hands into a long piece of silver wire. The easiest way to check this is with a long screwdriver or stiff piece of wire, such as a straightened-out coat hanger. You can also turn them into candle lanterns by twisting wire around the top of the jar and then fashioning a hanging loop from the same piece of wire. I once knew of a guy getting his wrist dislocated because a piece of wire got tangled up in a shackle and around his hand at the same time. Barry was an older, but still very beefy and hairy ex-driller, with thick glasses repaired and re-repaired with bits and pieces of wire. It was the same effect as bending a piece of wire back and forth - eventually it snaps. This was a large empty corned beef tin, which had holes punched in the top and a piece of wire placed to make it easy to carry. Wrap the end of a piece of wire around a galvanized nail and wrap the end of a second piece of wire around a penny. Thinking quickly, Brian used a piece of wire to hook the keys from inside the car. An initial demonstration about how to manipulate, form and attach two pieces of wire was all that was needed to make these figures come alive. To obtain out-of-reach food, the crow repeatedly took a piece of straight wire and bent it to create a hook. Kneeling down next to the door so that the keyhole was on eye level, I produced the piece of wire and file that he'd given me and proceeded to try my hand at picking the lock. If you have to cultivate in wet conditions, twisting a piece of wire around the shovel can help break up the slabs of dirt. Diagonal pliers or ‘dikes’ are actually intended to cut pieces of wire or small metal hardware like pins or nails. 1.2 A length or quantity of wire used, for example, for fencing or to carry an electric current. 线（如栅栏铁丝或电线） Example sentencesExamples The barbs are at the end of electrical wires carrying 50,000 volts. Research is also being carried out in England into the possible use of tasers, which fire darts connected to a wire that carries an electrical current powerful enough to incapacitate the target. Also, a wire that has a current flowing through it, may heat-up and cause the temperature to rise sufficiently to ignite materials. The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity. Accordingly the current remained in the wires throughout the circuit so long as the main switch was on. In the simplest case, the wires carrying the electrical signals are used to form an electromagnet which attracts and releases a metal diaphragm. Objecting to unsightly overhead wires to provide electric current, most British systems did not adopt electric traction until after 1900. Because they are so long and carry so much current, the wires store huge amounts of power in the electric and magnetic fields that surround them. But I was wrong in my assumption, as there was no signs of wires bringing current to the house. To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current. Replacement of all old electric wires, poles and transformers to ensure a proper distribution of power to consumers had been ordered. Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry. And, like fuses, they're basically lengths of wire designed to carry a certain number of amps. Do wires degenerate when electric current is passed through them? Abnormal cells are cut out using a heated wire with an electrical current running through it. As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables. In 1802, Davy showed that artificial light was produced by passing electrical current through a platinum wire. Iron creates the magnetic field and copper wires carry away the current generated. Much as current flows through a wire, these impulses, known as action potentials, travel down the axon from its origin near the cell body to its terminal. He showed that a magnet could induce an electrical current in a wire. Synonyms cable, lead, flex 1.3North American Horse racing A wire stretched across and above the track at the finish line of a racetrack. 〈北美〉〔赛马〕起跑线；终点线 Example sentencesExamples Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire. She finished five lengths behind Azeri at the wire. The pair fought furiously through Churchill's long stretch and were on nearly even terms at the wire and needed the photo finish camera to separate them. 2An electronic listening device that can be concealed on a person. 隐蔽式电子收听器 Example sentencesExamples And now she was here, doing what he'd asked while he listened on a wire. 3North American informal A telegram or cablegram. 〈非正式〉电报 Example sentencesExamples Today, of course, we are no longer tethered to telegraph or telephone wires for conversation. I frequently went down to the C&O Coloma depot, and spent time there listening in on the wire with agent Baker. verbˈwaɪ(ə)rˈwī(ə)r [with object] 1Install electric circuits or wires in. 给…安装电线，给…安装线路 wiring a plug 给插头安上电线。 they wired the place themselves Example sentencesExamples The first time that I realised I wanted to be an electronics engineer was when I rather foolishly wired up more than a few lightbulbs into a single plug with a three amp fuse and nearly blew a wall out of my parents' house. Outside the house there is a detached garage with electric shutter and electricity wiring, while a cobbled driveway offers parking for six cars. We wired up the tents to a generator and wired up all the shops to a switch that goes to another generator in case of power loss. Clays wired up the Christmas tree in the dormitory lounge so that the different frequencies of sound activated its red, green, blue and yellow lights. Electricians then wired the fiber to the company's office suite. The meeting discussed heating arrangements for the winter months and hope to get the prefab wired up for electricity during the next few weeks. The polygraph, where you're - as you're aware, you have to be wired up to and it measures blood pressure, and heart rate and pulse and so on and so forth. Kelvingrove was one of the first public buildings to be wired for electricity, and many of the original cables remain. A pathway leads to a workshop/utility room which is wired for electricity and plumbed for a washing machine. We wired a small electric light in parallel with the circuit to the engine heater. Wooden decking runs around the back and side of the house and there is a large detached garage which is wired for electricity and includes a shower room. All the other rooms were lit by candles and kerosene, seeing as their building had not been wired with electricity yet. The informer, who is wired up, is told by one of the News of the World team hidden in a nearby van to move aside so that the paper's photographer can get a clear view of the ‘gang’ to take a picture. I installed fifteen LEDs with resistors - they are all wired up on an extra USB port in the keyboard. In a second visit they found cables and a junction box in the loft wired up to bypass the meter. The machines at our disposal in the Home Ec room began their existence as treadle models that at some point had been wired for electricity. However, far from being asleep, Seamus felt fully awake and annoyed at being wired up like an appliance. A dedicated entertainment room has been wired up for surround-sound speakers and other home-cinema goodies. Matt took off down the corridors again, Mike in pursuit, heading for the balcony that would lead down to where the bombs had been wired up. The granite-walled back garden is 29 feet long and 26 feet wide, and is in lawn with flowerbeds, shrubs and a wooden shed that has been wired for electricity. 1.1 Connect (someone or something) to a piece of electronic equipment. 将（某人，某物）与电子设备相连 a microphone wired to a loudspeaker 连接在扬声器上的麦克风。 Example sentencesExamples They were wired to remote recorders located in separate rooms. During the operation, the most technical performed on a child of her age, Beth was wired up to a by-pass machine to keep her damaged heart beating, while the artery was widened to allow more oxygen to reach her heart. Electronic components are then wired on to the device to process information that it senses or to drive the movement of its mechanical parts. Although he has been told he would be unlikely to win a patent for wiring a vintage receiver to a handphone, he thinks he can turn it into a design-driven business. There's also a USB 2.0 port to enable the unit to be wired up to a PC, to which it appears as a generic USB Mass Storage device. There's no point buying several grands' worth of audiophile equipment only to wire it up to cheap speakers. All the houses in Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham, will be wired up to the net via the latest TV set-top box, as part of a £10m national campaign. An alternative solution is a system that has a beeper / LED lights mounted in the C pillar (alongside the rear windscreen) wired up to the sensors. The patient sat with both feet and arms in saline baths and was wired up to the machine. If wiring the wine cellar for an Internet connection seems like overkill, consider the possibilities for the pampered homeowner. The flash trigger is wired to the shutter mechanism. Only after a search revealed watches wired to a circuit board did anyone suspect a bomb. Those taking part in this show will be wired up to a small microphone, including the directors, so that everything will be heard during the filming. It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard handphone concealed in his pocket. Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail. If you start wiring your computer equipment up to your video equipment its not long before everything disappears under a mountain of leads and power cables. We were told that we would be wired up with a mic and put in front of the camera and hit with a few questions. Thirty years ago, in the midst of a double-barrelled open-heart surgery, I suffered a complete heart block and was wired up to an external pacemaker. 2Provide, fasten, or reinforce with wires. 用金属线固定（或加固） they wired his jaw 他们把他的下颌用金属丝加固。 Example sentencesExamples Sharon's injuries required several visits to hospital, and she had to have her jaw wired after a serious infection. Is it necessary for the jaw to be wired shut afterward? After all, it's hard to do a reading with your jaw wired shut. Later, lying in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, Uncle Tap complained to Dennis that his nocturnal activities had been curtailed. Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days. 3North American informal Send a telegram or cablegram to. 〈非正式〉电报 she wired her friend for advice 她打电报给朋友寻求建议。 Example sentencesExamples As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living. 3.1with two objects Send (money) to (someone) by means of a telegram or cablegram. 把（钱）电汇给（某人） he was expecting a friend in Australia to wire him $1,500 他正等着澳大利亚的一个朋友给他电汇1，500美金。 Example sentencesExamples These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States. Instead he is unable to clear up suspicions that he embezzled funds and wired large sums of money to the US. They can have the money wired to their bank account, they can open an account with a specified bank, or they can pick up their winnings personally. There seemed no option but to get money wired to me from the UK. Sometimes the money was sent offshore then wired back later. 4Snare (an animal) with wire. 用金属网诱捕（动物） 5Croquet Obstruct (a ball, shot, or player) by a wicket. 〔槌球〕在拱门边阻挡（球，射球，选手） Phrases by wire By telegraph. 用电报，通过电报 Example sentencesExamples For many decades into the late 20th Century, the railway relied on a daily time signal from the Dominion Observatory, sent by wire all across Canada. We notified Hopkins by wire about the letters and then went back to Baker Street to wait. In the near future, the 1932 edition predicted, ‘we shall receive pictures by wire, as is already being done by one or two newspapers’. down to the wire informal Used to denote a situation whose outcome is not decided until the very last minute. 〈非正式〉到最后一刻；直至最后；最终 it was probable that the test of nerves would go down to the wire 对意志力的考验很可能会一直持续到最后。 Example sentencesExamples It's getting down to the wire at the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong. It could go down to the wire, but the Swedes could just hold their nerve best either in extra-time or penalties. But it will go down to the wire, and I think it'll be a very exciting month that we've got ahead of us. Then again there's another 10 months to go so it's hardly down to the wire! Malls, merriment and mayhem - for Brittany, Christmas shopping was down to the wire. I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire. For the first time in years we had a game that went down to the wire and was actually exciting. The game went down to the wire, each team trading baskets until we were tied at 80. Many games especially those with playoff implications will go right down to the wire and be decided by a handful of points. Roughly half the population will find that a sufficient reason to vote for him, and the election will go down to the wire. under the wire informal At the last possible opportunity; just in time. 〈北美，非正式〉在最后期限之前；及时，刚好赶上 Example sentencesExamples ‘I just got in under the wire, age-wise,’ she says. I know that you hate how they get their payments in just under the wire. As she galloped under the wire, the seven-year-old daughter of Desert King eclipsed the Australian earnings record held by three-time Horse of the Year Sunline. And the art was good enough that no-one's grumbling about how late it was, even though it really came in just under the wire, and I'm madly rewriting to make it work. He called the place and just barely made it under the wire for the deadline for an interview. Find out how new procedures might squeeze in under the wire in our ‘Brainstorm’ segment. Deadline's tomorrow, and I won't be slipping in under the wire. I'm getting in just under the wire, which pleases me, as I generally leave things of this ilk till it is far too late for me to remedy the situation. Could 2006 be the year when I stop skidding under the wire at the last minute and begin a systematic plan of action, ticking off life's events with time to spare, instead? Then there are those who come softly, slipping so silently under the wire that, if you don't look hard enough, can easily be mistaken for the status quo. Synonyms just in time, not a moment too soon, almost too late, at the critical moment Origin Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere ‘plait, weave’. noun.1 phr.
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