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Wired   /wˈaɪərd/  /waɪrd/   Listen
Wired

adjective
1.
Equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service.
2.
Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline.  Synonyms: pumped, pumped-up, pumped up.  "He was so pumped he couldn't sleep"
3.
Tied or bound with wire.



Wire

verb
(past & past part. wired; pres. part. wiring)
1.
Provide with electrical circuits.
2.
Send cables, wires, or telegrams.  Synonyms: cable, telegraph.
3.
Fasten with wire.
4.
String on a wire.
5.
Equip for use with electricity.  Synonym: electrify.



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"Wired" Quotes from Famous Books



... the oven where a white light had appeared. A woman-worker had already opened the door and was pulling a lever. As though by magic, a bunch of castings, wired together, came travelling out of their heat bath and were immediately lowered into a large tank which held the ...
— Mary Minds Her Business • George Weston

... little gate, and walked under a wealth of drooping flowers to the poultry yard that lay at the further side. Everything here was on the most up-to-date system. Pens of beautiful white Leghorns, Black Minorcas and Buff Orpingtons were kept in wired inclosures, each with its own henhouse and scratching-shed full of straw. Miss Heald took Winona inside to inspect the patent nesting-boxes, and the grit-cutting machine. She also showed ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

... lucky I was in New York when Louis wired us she had flown," he continued—I omit the oaths which punctuated his phrases. "Lucky I had my men with me, too. I didn't think I'd need them here, but I'd promised them a trip to New York—and then comes Louis's wire. I put them on the track. I guessed she's go to Daly's—old Duchaine was mad about ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert

... listening. I was scrambling after the mess of tubes, condensers and power packs scattered over the rug. Some of them were still wired together, but most of them had broken loose. Elmer was certainly one heck of a sloppy workman. Hadn't even soldered the connections. ...
— The Aggravation of Elmer • Robert Andrew Arthur

... to bed Joe wired his acceptance of the offer, and in the morning received a telegram from Maurice Vane, asking him to go to Chicago, to the ...
— Joe The Hotel Boy • Horatio Alger Jr.


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