Definizione monolingua

wire

wire (third-person singular simple present wires, present participle wiring, simple past and past participle wired)

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

   We need to wire that hole in the fence.

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 222:

     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.

2. To string on a wire.

   wire beads

3. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
4. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

   Ill just wire your camera to the computer screen.

5. (informal) 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.

6. To make someone tense or psyched-up.

   Im never going to sleep – Im completely wired from all that coffee.

7. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.

   We wired the suspects house.

wire (countable and uncountable; plural wires)

1. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
2. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable
3. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
4. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
5. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
6. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegram
7. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
8. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.

   This election is going to go right to the wire

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

Definizione dizionario wire

	filo
	thin thread of metal

	cablare
	Send a message by telegraph.

	cavo
	metal conductor that carries electricity

	filo metallico
	thin thread of metal

	telegrafare
	'''informal''' : to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system
	Send a message by telegraph.

	arrivo
	sports: finish line of a racetrack

	assicurare con filo metallico
	to fasten with wire

	avere nervi a fior di pelle
	to make someone tense or psyched-up

	cimice
	'''slang''' : hidden listening device on the person

	collegare tramite cavo
	to add something into an electrical system by means of wiring

	eccitare
	to make someone tense or psyched-up

	filo elettrico
	metal conductor that carries electricity

	filo spinato
	fence made of usually barbed wire

	fissare con filo metallico
	to fasten with wire

	gasare
	to make someone tense or psyched-up

	infilzare
	to string on a wire

	installare impianto elettrico
	to equip with wires for use with electricity

	installare microspie
	'''slang''' : to install eavesdropping equipment

	legare con filo metallico
	to fasten with wire

	microspia
	'''slang''' : hidden listening device on the person

	stendere fili elettrici
	to equip with wires for use with electricity

	traguardo
	sports: finish line of a racetrack

allacciare

fil di ferro

filamento

filo di ferro

installare

legare

telegramma

Altri significati:

(informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.

A fence made of usually barbed wire.

line (also telephone, railway)

To equip with wires for use with electricity.

To string on a wire.

To make someone tense or psyched-up.

Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

(informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.

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

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

(informal) A telecommunication wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; a telegram

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

(slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.

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

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

(sports) A finish line of a racetrack.

A metal conductor that carries electricity.

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