What is the name meaning of WIRE. Phrases containing WIRE
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English : metonymic occupational name for a wire drawer, from Middle English wīr ‘wire’.English : topographic name for someone who lived where bog myrtle grew, Old English wīr.English : habitational name from Wyre Forest in Hereford, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, probably named from a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding river’.
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English : variant of Wire.
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English : variant spelling of Wire.Irish : see Weir.
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English : variant spelling of Wire.
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English : variant of Wire.
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From the alder forest army camp.
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v. i.
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
v. t.
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
n.
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
n.
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
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A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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One who manufactures articles from wire.
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One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
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A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
p. p.
of Wiredraw
v. t.
To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
imp.
of Wiredraw
v. t.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
n.
Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wiredraw
v. t.
Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.
n.
An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
v. t.
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
imp. & p. p.
of Wire
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Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension.
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One who draws metal into wire.