header vs wire

header

verb
  • To strike (a ball) with one's head. 

noun
  • A headlong fall, jump or dive. 

  • Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. 

  • A pipe which connects several smaller pipes. 

  • One who puts a head on something. 

  • Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. 

  • A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above. 

  • Someone who heads the ball. 

  • A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system. 

  • The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. 

  • The first part of a file or record that describes its contents. 

  • A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc. 

  • the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors. 

  • The act of hitting the ball with the head. 

  • A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening. 

  • The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied. 

  • A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing. 

wire

verb
  • To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot. 

  • To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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 piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. 

  • 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. 

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