Wire Definition
- telegram
- conducting-wire
- thread
- telegraph
- strand
- coil
- message
- line
- cable
- cablegram
- code message
- night-letter
- night message
- wire entanglement
- wire-cloth
- To the very end, as in a race or contest.
- At the finish line.
- Just in the nick of time; at the last moment.
- to the very end or the very last moments
- to use private influence to achieve a purpose
- (to arrive or accomplish something) barely on time or at the last minute
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Wire
- down to the wire
- under the wire
- down to the wire
- pull wires
- (get in) under the wire
- (from) wire to wire
Origin of Wire
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From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wÄ«r (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament"), from Proto-Germanic *wÄ«raz (“wire"), from Proto-Indo-European *weyro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire"), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait"). Cognate with Low German Wir (“wire"), German Wiere (“wire, metallic thread"), Icelandic vír (“wire"), Swedish vira (“to twist"), Latin vieō (“weave together"), Welsh gwyr ('bent'), and Greek ίρις ('rainbow').
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English wīr wei- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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