Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Equipped with a system of wires, as for electric, telephone, cable television, or computer network connections.
- adj. Slang Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices: a wired hotel room.
- adj. Reinforced or supported by wires.
- adj. Tied or bound up with wire: wired bundles of newspaper.
- adj. Slang Having numerous influential connections, as with high-ranking members of an organization.
- adj. Slang Very stimulated or excited, as from a stimulant or a rush of adrenaline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology, having wires or wiry feathers: chiefly in composition: as, the twelve- wired bird of paradise. Compare wire-tailed, and see wire, verb,6, and cuts under Seleuoides, thread-tailed, Trochilidæ, and Videstrelda.
- In croquet, protected or obstructed by an intervening wire.
Wiktionary
- adj. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- adj. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- adj. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- adj. slang Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- adj. poker slang A pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down
- adj. poker slang three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud
- adj. informal connected to the Internet; online
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of wire.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tied or bound with wire
- adj. equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- adj. tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
Examples
“I didn't sleep well at all; maybe I was still wired from the banquet.”
“As we see in wired internet today, one of those next horizons is non-neutral access for third party applications.”
“Living in wired Newfoundland has turned George into an Ignatieff-like cosmopolitan snob.”
“Going wired is now easier than ever, but is digital attachment necessarily a good thing?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Investments in wired technology are expensive and limited.”
“I run a website called portaportal, its an online bookmarking utility and its used heavily by teachers to streamline internet work in wired classrooms.”
“Moaning Lisa was a mannequin wired so that if you touched her in certain erogenous zones she would moan in response.”
“Both my neighbor (across the street, so wired is out) and I have essentially identical internet setups using Verizon FIOS (20Mbps/5Mbps).”
DD-WRT: Setting up a home Wireless Distribution System (WDS) — Meandering Passage
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wired’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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((Eye)) CBS = I See B.S.
Input limited to 30 seconds, so we needed to find cost-effective ways to become a part of your life. Uninvited houseguest technology: the link technique, thoughts as real estate. The full potential...
joy, dodge, ram, monster, coke, snuggle, gateway, ivory, life, subway, crunch, crest and 151 more...
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Deadlinitis
How do approaching (or missed) deadlines make you feel?
entrained, untraveling, wordasphyxia, inspired, anxious, guilty, concentrated, panic, blackout, focused, insomnia, hunger and 17 more...
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recent
Friends, of, today, are, not, only, interested, molar, Whistles, armpit, stinks, spotted and 26 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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ashwinsodhi's Words
moot, debauchery, denizen, fricative, ute, bogan, cacophony, solipsism, innocuous, skepticism, fecund, dishoom and 8 more...
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w h o' s
hysteria, hilarity, hollow, ocean, wired, wilted, winter, whisper, wanted, weave, wrong, silhouette and 28 more...
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Poetrie: Fishing on the Susquehanna i...
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
by Billy Collins
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or on any river for that matter
to be perfectly honest.
...springing, wired, hare, whitening, haystacks, blink, unlikely, whip, flat-bottom, bandanna, dense, cloud-ruffled and 15 more...
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bodya's Words
a2dp, edge, aacs, yariserv, bogdan, kiev, kyiv, ukraine, komsomolsk, komsomol'sk, poltava, vodka and 64 more...
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unit 10
vocab revision
bug, virus, lense, disk, modem, wired, myth, salary, enthusiast, online
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