Synonyms of the word wire


WIREACCOMMODATE - ADAPT - CABLE - CONDUCTOR - DRAW - ELECTRIFY - EQUIP - FASTEN - FIT - FIX - LIGAMENT - MESSAGE - OUTFIT - SECURE - STRING - TELECOMMUNICATE - TELEGRAM - TELEGRAPH - THREAD

wire

  • n. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel…
  • n. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
  • n. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
  • n. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
  • n. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
  • n. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
  • n. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
  • n. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining…
  • n. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
  • n. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep…
  • n. (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence,…
  • n. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women.
  • n. (Scotland) A knitting needle.
  • v. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
  • v. To string on a wire.
  • v. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
  • v. To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
  • v. (informal) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly…
  • v. To make someone tense or psyched up.
  • v. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
  • v. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
  • v. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

accommodate

  • v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
  • v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
  • v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
  • v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
  • v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
  • v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
  • v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

adapt

  • v. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • v. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
  • v. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.
  • adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

cable

  • n. (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
  • n. (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or…
  • n. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
  • n. (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
  • n. (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
  • n. (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
  • n. (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to…
  • v. (transitive) To provide with cable(s).
  • v. (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s).
  • v. (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable.
  • v. (transitive) To send a telegram by cable.
  • v. (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
  • v. (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.

conductor

  • n. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • n. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation…
  • n. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
  • n. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed.
  • n. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • n. (architecture) A leader.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

electrify

  • v. (transitive) To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
  • v. (transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock…
  • v. (transitive) To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power.
  • v. (transitive) To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
  • v. (intransitive) To become electric.

equip

  • v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
  • v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

fasten

  • v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
  • v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fit

  • adj. Suitable, proper.
  • adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
  • adj. In good shape; physically well.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
  • adj. Prepared; ready.
  • v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
  • v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
  • v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
  • v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
  • v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
  • v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
  • v. (transitive) To make ready.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
  • v. To be proper or becoming.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
  • n. The degree to which something fits.
  • n. Conformity of elements one to another.
  • n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
  • n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
  • n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
  • n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
  • n. A seizure or convulsion.
  • n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
  • n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
  • n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
  • v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

fix

  • n. A repair or corrective action.
  • n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  • n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  • n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
  • n. A determination of location.
  • n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
  • v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
  • v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
  • v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
  • v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

ligament

  • n. (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
  • n. (figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.

message

  • n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
  • n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
  • v. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
  • v. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
  • v. (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear as a message.

outfit

  • n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
  • n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
  • n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
  • n. (informal) A business or firm.
  • n. (sports) A sports team.
  • n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

secure

  • adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
  • adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  • adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  • adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  • adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
  • adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  • adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
  • adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  • v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  • v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
  • v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
  • v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

string

  • n. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
  • n. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
  • n. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
  • n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession;…
  • n. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
  • n. (countable) A series of items or events.
  • n. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
  • n. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable…
  • n. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
  • n. (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those…
  • n. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively.
  • n. (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
  • n. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
  • n. Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball…
  • n. The points made in a game of billiards.
  • n. (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play,…
  • n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
  • n. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
  • n. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
  • n. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and…
  • n. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
  • n. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
  • n. (architecture) A stringcourse.
  • n. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
  • v. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
  • v. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are…

telecommunicate

  • v. To communicate over a long distance, often across the internet.

telegram

  • n. A message transmitted by telegraph.
  • v. To send a telegram.

telegraph

  • n. (historical) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially…
  • v. To send a message by telegraph.
  • v. To give nonverbal signals to another, as with gestures or a change in attitude.
  • v. To show one's intended action unintentionally.

thread

  • n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving…
  • n. A theme or idea.
  • n. (engineering) A screw thread.
  • n. A sequence of connections.
  • n. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
  • n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources…
  • n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first…
  • n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
  • n. (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
  • v. (transitive) To put thread through.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
  • v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

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