Wire Overhead Noun Bre ˈwaɪə(R ˈwaɪər Coil Copper

• a coil of copper wire
• a wire basket
• the box was fastened with a rusty wire.
• overhead wires

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
• a wire basket
• The box was fastened with a rusty wire.
2. a piece of wire that is used to carry an electric current or signal
• overhead wires
• fuse wire
• The telephone wires had been cut.
3. a wire fence
• Three prisoners escaped by crawling under the wire.
• = telegram
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• We sent a wire asking him to join us.
4. 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.
5. 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
6. a person who is lively and full of energy
• See related entries: Energetic
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/energetic/wire_1
7. to use your influence in order to get an advantage for somebody
8. at the last possible opportunity; just in time
• The files arrived just under the wire and we made the deadline.

Extra Examples

• Behind the wire, the prisoners were exercising.
• Cool the cakes on a wire rack.
• Don’t place carpets over electrical wires.
• Don’t touch that wire. It’s live.
• He disconnected the wire from the clock.
• I found myself tripping over a tangle of wires and cables.
• One man rode a bicycle along the high wire as the climax to the act.
• Surely the wires shouldn’t show like that?
• The electrician ran a wire from the kitchen to the bedroom.
• The wire was attached to a pin in the plug.
• The wire was stretched between two poles.
• There were wires trailing everywhere.
• They cut the perimeter wire and escaped.
• Watch out for bare wires.
• We got in under the wire.
• Where does this wire go?
• a fence topped with razor wire
• coils of barbed wire
• overhead electricity wires
• the flow of electrical current down a wire
• wire coat hangers
• a spider’s web of unsightly overhead wires
• a wire rack/basket

Word Origin

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