list vs wire

list

noun
  • A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker. 

  • Material used for cloth selvage. 

  • A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank. 

  • A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. 

  • A little square moulding; a fillet or listel. 

  • The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. 

  • A tilt to a building. 

  • The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments. 

  • The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle. 

  • A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. 

  • A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. 

  • A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items. 

verb
  • To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. 

  • To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. 

  • To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed. 

  • To create or recite a list. 

  • To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. 

  • To plough and plant with a lister. 

  • To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. 

  • To place in listings. 

  • To listen to. 

  • To listen. 

  • To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe. 

  • To cause (something) to tilt to one side. 

  • To tilt to one side. 

wire

noun
  • A knitting needle. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

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