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Wire Wired Piece Signals Security System Alarm Building

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If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put w____ inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it.If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put wires inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it.
...learning to wire and plumb the house herself.
Lamps should be safely wired.
Each of the homes has a security system and is wired for cable television.
...a badly wired appliance.
He was helping wire up the Channel Tunnel last season.
Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops.
Security experts wired up dozens of expensive plants to the main alarm system at his mansion.
word wire
full-definition
noun
A wire is a long thin piece of metal that is used to fasten things or to carry electric current.
...fine copper wire.
...gadgets which detect electrical wires, pipes and timbers in walls.
A wire is a cable which carries power or signals from one place to another.
I ripped out the phone wire that ran through to his office.
...the voltage of the overhead wires.
A wire is the same as a telegram .
verb
If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put wires inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it.
...learning to wire and plumb the house herself.
Lamps should be safely wired.
Each of the homes has a security system and is wired for cable television.
...a badly wired appliance.
He was helping wire up the Channel Tunnel last season.
Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops.
Security experts wired up dozens of expensive plants to the main alarm system at his mansion.
If you wire a person, you send them a telegram.
He wired the chairman immediately.
They wired back a long list of books.
If I get another tummy ache, I will wire you to come.
If you wire an amount of money to a person or place, you tell a bank to send it to the person or place using a telegram message.
I'm wiring you some money.
They arranged to wire the money from the United States.
Investigators say nearly $100,000 was wired into the suspect's bank accounts.
inflections wireswiringwired
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