to wire

Definition of to wire in English English dictionary: A deadline or critical endpoint
This election is going to go right to the wire.; To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing
I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.; To make someone tense or psyched-up
I'm never going to sleep – I'm completely wired from all that coffee.; A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score; To equip with wires for use with electricity; A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence; Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die; A metal conductor that carries electricity; 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.; {n} a metal drawn into small bars or threds; A wire is the same as a telegram; the finishing line on a racetrack; provide with electrical circuits; "wire the addition to the house"; To send (a message) by telegraph; The vertical part of a hoop, and also describing the process of wiring; to add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something; a message transmitted by telegraph; Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant; A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges' stand, to mark the line at which the races end; The act of one who, or that which, winnows; A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegram; A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable; To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads; A windrow; If you wire an amount of money to a person or place, you tell a bank to send it to the person or place using a telegram message. I'm wiring you some money They arranged to wire the money from the United States; equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"; If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment. Negotiators again worked right down to the wire to reach an agreement. see also barbed wire, high wire, hot-wire, live wire; The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner; Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted; Thin metal used to construct a belay; also what you send to the editors of the Guinness Book of Records when you have found the deepest cave in the world; {i} metal strand, cord, line; string; barbed wire, wire fence; telegraph cable; cablegram; telegram; telegraphic system; electronic listening device, wire-tapping device; (Canada & USA) finishing line on a racecourse; pickpocket, one who steals from the pockets of others, cutpurse; A finish line of a racetrack; fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support"; (1) A single piece of slender, flexible metal ranging in approximate size from a piece that is difficult to bend by hand to a fine thread (2) Several wires as in (1) twisted together (3) Wire as in (1) or (2) insulated; To send a telegraphic message; To keep, fee; send cables, wires, or telegrams; To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors; ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc; If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put wires inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it. learning to wire and plumb the house herself Each of the homes has a security system and is wired for cable television. a badly wired appliance. Wire up means the same as wire. He was helping wire up the Channel Tunnel last season Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops; The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year; A wire is a slender rod or filament of drawn metal; A metal product with a circular diameter that runs from 032 to 312" thick The products are usually produced in long continuous lengths and can be ordered cut to length or in a coil; {f} fasten with wire; attach a wire; send a telegram; install an electronic listening device, install a wire-tapping device; send or transfer money electronically from one bank to another; to string on a wire; Wire payment; ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance the finishing line on a racetrack fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support"; {s} made of a thin flexible cord of metal; resembling wire; To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot; Electrical wire: physical object corresponding to a signal; A wire is a cable which carries power or signals from one place to another. I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office. the voltage of the overhead wires. = cable; A fence made of usually barbed wire; A wire is a long thin piece of metal that is used to fasten things or to carry electric current. fine copper wire. gadgets which detect electrical wires, pipes and timbers in walls; To snare by means of a wire or wires; Either copper, sterling silver, or gold-filled, can be used to wrap beads, string beads, or attach beads It comes in spools and the thickness is measured by gauge The higher the gauge, the thinner the wire; The period of decay, old age, death, or the like; To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida; to equip for use with electricity; Winsome; To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream; a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance; 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; Set of connected edges Remark : The face restriction is composed by a set of wires, one for the extern boundary and one for each hole; A knitting needle; An endless belt woven of plastic or metal for use an the fourdrinier machine; forming fabric; Cable that attaches glider to winch and provides the necessary pull Make sure you wear gloves when handling this stuff as it bites; string on a wire; "wire beads"; To install eavesdropping equipment; Metal thread available in various diameters and various degrees of stiffness and is generally used in surgery to transfix fractured bone; The system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; as, to pull the wires for office