wire
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1. wire - Noun
2. wire - Verb
3. Wire - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
To send (a message) by telegraph.
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
To send a telegraphic message.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mound the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.
To pull somebody by a wire.