1. A usually pliable metallic strand or rod made in many lengths and diameters, sometimes clad and often electrically insulated, used chiefly for structural support or to conduct electricity.
2. A group of wire strands bundled or twisted together as a functional unit; cable.
3. Something resembling a wire, as in slenderness or stiffness.
4. An open telephone connection.
5. Slang. A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.
6. a. A telegraph service. b. A telegram or cablegram.
7. Computer Science. A pin in the print head of a computer printer.
8. The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
9. Sports. The finish line of a racetrack.
10. wires a. The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show. b. Hidden controlling influences.
12. Fencing made of usually barbed wire.
1. To bind, connect, or attach with wires or a wire.
2. To string (beads, for example) on wire.
3. To equip with a system of electrical wires.
4. Slang. To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
5. To send by telegraph: wired her congratulations.
6. To send a telegram to.
down to the wire Informal.
To the very end, as in a race or contest.
1. Sports.. At the finish line.
2. Informal.. Just in the nick of time; at the last moment.
Colin Newman owns the techno label Swim.
There are 27,572 wires used in one main cable on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge has two main cables.
sample: "we are the music makers. we are the dreamers of the dream... have you ever wire tripped? have you ever jacked in?"
track _I Dream Of Wires_ MP3 (192k) by Gary Numan off of _Telekon_ 12"