1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
3. Verb
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
4. Verb
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
5. Verb
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
6. Verb
To send (a message) by telegraph.
7. Verb
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
8. Verb
To send a telegraphic message.
9. Noun
a message transmitted by telegraph
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