The thread of a screw.
Any scantling smaller than a batten.
The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
A colored or gilded border.
The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
The space between two flutings in a shaft.
A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
To slice, bone or make into fillets.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.