Wire

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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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