Wire Fence Extra Examples Electrical Noun ˈwaɪə(R ˈwaɪər

• a coil of copper wire
• wire mesh
• a high wire fence encircles the complex.
• a wire basket

wire

1. metal in the form of thin thread; a piece of this
• SEE ALSO barbed wire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/barbed-wire
• a coil of copper wire
• wire mesh
• A high wire fence encircles the complex.
• a wire basket
• The box was fastened with a rusty wire.

Extra Examples

• Cool the cakes on a wire rack.
• Surely the wires shouldn't show like that?
• The wire was stretched between two poles.
• wire coat hangers
2. a piece of wire that is used to carry an electric current or signal
• SEE ALSO fuse wire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fuse-wire
• electrical wires
• a spider's web of unsightly overhead wires
• The telephone wires had been cut.

Extra Examples

• Don't place carpets over electrical wires.
• Don't touch that wire. It's live.
• He disconnected the wire from the clock.
• The electrician ran a wire from the kitchen to the bedroom.
• The wire was attached to a pin in the plug.
• Watch out for bare wires.
• overhead electricity wires
• the flow of electrical current down a wire
• I found myself tripping over a tangle of wires and cables.
• There were wires trailing everywhere.
• Where does this wire go?
3. an electronic listening device that can be hidden on a person
• an undercover police informer who was wearing a wire
4. a wire fence
• Three prisoners escaped by crawling under the wire.

Extra Examples

• Behind the wire, the prisoners were exercising.
• They cut the perimeter wire and escaped.
5. a telegram (= a message sent by telegraph and then printed and given to somebody)
• We sent a wire asking him to join us.
6. to become confused about what somebody has said to you so that you think they meant something else
• We seem to have got our wires crossed. I thought you were coming on Tuesday.
7. if you say that a situation goes down to the wire, you mean that the result will not be decided or known until the very end
8. a person who is lively and full of energy
9. to use your influence in order to get an advantage for somebody
10. at the last possible opportunity; just in time
• The files arrived just under the wire and we made the deadline.
• We got in under the wire.

Word Origin

• Old English wīr; of Germanic origin, probably from the base of Latin viere ‘plait, weave’.