Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Equipped with a system of wires, as for electric, telephone, cable television, or computer network connections.
- adjective Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- adjective Reinforced or supported by wires.
- adjective Tied or bound up with wire.
- adjective Genetically determined; hardwired.
- adjective Slang Very stimulated or excited, as from a stimulant or a rush of adrenaline.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, having wires or wiry feathers: chiefly in composition: as, the twelve- wired bird of paradise. Compare
wire-tailed , and seewire , verb,6, and cuts under Seleuoides, thread-tailed, Trochilidæ, and Videstrelda. - In croquet, protected or obstructed by an intervening wire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Equipped withwires , so as toconnect to apower source or to otherelectric orelectronic equipment ;connected bywires . - adjective Equipped with
hidden electroniceavesdropping devices . - adjective
Reinforced ,supported ,tied orbound with wire. - adjective slang Very
excited ,overstimulated ;high-strung . - adjective poker slang A
pair inseven card stud with one face up and one face down - adjective poker slang
three of a kind as the first three cards inseven card stud - adjective informal
connected to theInternet ;online - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tied or bound with wire
- adjective equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- adjective tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
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Examples
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I didn't sleep well at all; maybe I was still wired from the banquet.
Nebula Weekend, days 2-3 eugie 2010
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Going wired is now easier than ever, but is digital attachment necessarily a good thing?
From Xanga to Facebook to Tumblr: How have you grown up through social networks? Katie Rogers 2010
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As we see in wired internet today, one of those next horizons is non-neutral access for third party applications.
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Investments in wired technology are expensive and limited.
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A tape made while I was wired is included, You should recognize all of the elements in the tape that would be required for prosecution.
SIDNEY HERNDON 2010
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I didn't sleep well at all; maybe I was still wired from the banquet.
Nebula Weekend, days 2-3 eugie 2010
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Living in wired Newfoundland has turned George into an Ignatieff-like cosmopolitan snob.
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But the danger of seeing something in present-day human behavior and crafting an evolutionary “Just-So Story” to ratify it as hard-wired is very great.
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I run a website called portaportal, its an online bookmarking utility and its used heavily by teachers to streamline internet work in wired classrooms.
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Moaning Lisa was a mannequin wired so that if you touched her in certain erogenous zones she would moan in response.
Archive 2007-10-01 pixel bailey 2007
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