Word Finder - wire

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Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

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A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.

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A metal conductor that carries electricity.

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A fence made of usually barbed wire.

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A finish line of a racetrack.

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A telecommunication wire or cable

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(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.

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A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

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A deadline or critical endpoint.

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This election is going to go right to the wire

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A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

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(usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.

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to pull the wires for office

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(thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women.

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A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.

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A knitting needle.

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The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

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To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

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We need to wire that hole in the fence.

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To string on a wire.

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wire beads

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To equip with wires for use with electricity.

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Do you know how to wire a plug?

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To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

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I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.

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(usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.

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There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.

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To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.

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The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.

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To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.

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Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.

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To install eavesdropping equipment.

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We wired the suspect's house.

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To snare by means of a wire or wires.

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To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

The coils are wound with copper wire (covered with silk), 10 mils.

It's so much more effective than rope, or wire, or chains.

For a wire exposed under the conditions observed by Elster and Geitel the emanation seems to be almost entirely derived from radium.

The description of that vehicle is plastered at every toll booth, state police barracks and wire service from here to California and back.

Thus, if the star's image is kept in bisection by the wire, both star and wire will appear at rest in the field of view.

It is essential that the paper covering be loose, so as to ensure that each wire is enclosed in a coating not of paper only, but also of air; the wires in fact are really insulated from each other by the dry air, the loose paper acting merely as a separator to prevent them from coming into contact.

Some of the containers had a thin wire running around but most were standing alone.

The radioactivity is denoted by A, and A = signifies that the potential of the dissipation apparatus fell I volt in an hour per metre of wire introduced.

Connexion is made into the office (or to the underground system, as is often the case) from the aerial wire by means of a copper conductor, insulated with gutta-percha, which passes through a " leading in " cup, whereby leakage is prevented between the wire and the pole.

The coated wire is treated in the same way as the copper strand - the die D, or another of the same size, being placed at the back of the cylinder and a larger one substituted at the front.

As in Hopkinson's experiments, ring magnets were employed; these were wound with primary and secondary coils of insulated platinum wire, which would bear a much higher temperature than copper without oxidation or fusion.

But this ultimatum was rendered invalid by a wire from Lansing, protesting against any settlement without the participation of America.

Stringfellow, however, stated that it occasionally left the wire and was sustained by its aeroplanes alone.

Fixity of all the parts was secured by a tubular mast extending upwards and downwards through about the middle of the craft, and from its extremities ran stays of aluminium wire to the tips of the aeroplanes and the end of the tubular backbone.

On the lower Congo transactions are in cash, but on the middle and upper Congo the use of coins in place of barter or the native brass wire currency makes but slow progress.

Coal is brought to the city from the coalfields by boats on the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers as well as by rail, and great fleets of barges carry coal and other heavy freight, such as steel rails, cotton ties, sheet iron, wire and nails, down the Ohio in the winter and spring.

The imports include wheat flour, rice, barley, prepared foods, sugar, coal, kerosene, beer, wines and liquors, railway equipment, machinery and general hardware, fence wire, cotton and other textiles, drugs, lumber, cement, paper, &c., while the exports comprise coffee, bananas, hides and skins, tobacco, precious metals, rubber, cabinet woods, divi-divi, dye-woods, vegetable ivory, Panama hats, orchids, vanilla, &c.

An alternating current of one ampere is defined to be one which produces the same heat in a second in a wire as the unit continuous current defined as above to be one ampere.

In their simplest form they consist of a wire through which passes the current to be measured, some arrangement being provided for measuring the small expansion produced by the heat generated in the wire.

The expansion of the working wire when it is heated will then increase or create a sag in it owing to its increase in FIG.

In order that this may take place, the heated wire must be flexible and must therefore be a single fine wire or a bundle of fine wires.

In ammeters for small currents it is customary to pass the whole current through the heating wire.

In instruments for larger currents the main current passes through a metallic strip acting as a bye-pass or shunt, and to the ends of this shunt are attached the ends of the working wire.

This shunt is generally a strip of platinoid or constantin, and the working wire itself is of the same metal.

This is done by mounting the working wire on a metal plate made of the same metal as the working wire itself; thus if the working wire is of platinoid it must be mounted on a platinoid bar, the supports which carry the ends of the working wire being insulated from this bar by being bushed with ivory or porcelain.

Then no changes of external temperature can affect the sag of the wire, and the only thing which can alter its length relatively to the supporting bar is the passage of a current through it.

Hot-wire ammeters are, however, liable to a shift of zero, and means are always provided by some adjusting screw for slightly altering the sag of the wire and so adjusting the index needle to the zero of the scale.

In the construction of such an instrument it is essential that the wire should be subjected to a process of preparation or " ageing," which consists in passing through it a fairly strong current, at least the maximum that it will ever have to carry, and starting and stopping this current frequently.

The wire ought to be so treated for many hours before it is placed in the instrument.

It is also necessary to notice that shunt instruments cannot be used for high frequencies, as then the relative inductance of the shunt and wire becomes important and affects the ratio in which the current is divided, whereas for low frequency currents the inductance is unimportant.

In constructing a hot-wire instrument for the measurement of high frequency currents it is necessary to make the working wire of a number of fine wires placed in parallel and slightly separated from one another, and to rpass the whole of the current to be measured through this strand.

If a small alternating current is passed through one wire, it sags down, the mirror is tilted, and the spot of light on the screen is displaced.

It consists of a glass bulb, in which there is a loop of fine wire, and to the bulb is attached a U-tube in which there is some liquid.

When a current is passed through the wire, continuous or alternating, it creates heat, which expands the air in the bulb and forces the liquid up one side of the U-tube to a certain position in which the rate of loss of heat by the air is equal to the rate at which it is gaining heat.

In its simplest form an electromagnetic ammeter consists of a circular coil of wire in which is pivoted eccentrically an index needle carrying at its lower end a small mass of iron.

When a current is passed through the coil the iron tends to move nearer to the coil of the wire where the field is stronger and so displaces the index needle over the scale.

Another type of similar instrument consists of a coil of wire having a fragment of iron wire suspended from one arm of an index needle near the mouth of a coil.

If a coil of insulated wire is suspended so that it is in stable equilibrium when its plane is parallel to the direction of a magnetic field, the transmission of a known electric current through the coil will cause it to be deflected through an angle which is a function of the field intensity.

The effects of tension upon the behaviour of a nickel wire are of a less simple character.

The metal to be tested was prepared in the form of a ring, upon which were wound primary and secondary coils of copper wire insulated with asbestos.

Across the river is Rock Falls (pop. in 1900, 2176), practically a suburb of Sterling, with foundries and machine-shops and manufactories of agricultural implements, barbed wire and bolts and rivets.

There is therefore a certain ratio in which any current passing through the ammeter is divided between the shunt and the working wire.

The reason is that the heat produced in a given time in a wire is proportional to the square of the strength of the current passing through it, and hence the rate at which the heat is produced in the wire, and therefore its temperature, increases much faster than the current itself increases.

When a current is passed through the wire forming the coil, the fragment of iron is drawn more into the aperture of the coil where the field is stronger and so displaces an index needle over a scale.

In those intended for alternating currents, the main current through the movable coil, whether consisting of one turn or more than one turn, is carried by a wire rope, of which each component strand is insulated by silk covering, to prevent the inductive action from altering the distribution of the current across the transverse section of the conductor.

Hold a small portion of the substance moistened with hydrochloric acid on a clean platinum wire in the fusion zone' of the Bunsen burner, and note any colour imparted to the flame.

Beilstein determines their presence by heating the substance with pure copper oxide on a platinum wire in the Bunsen flame; a green coloration is observed if halogens be present.

Attached to the bulb was a glass rod and then a tube containing iron wire.

They were employed as animated roasting jacks, turning round and round the wire cage in which they were confined, but with the employment of mechanical jacks their use ceased and the race appears to be extinct.

Paper, spirits, wire and nails, leather and tiles are the chief products of the manufactures.