To connect electrically to the earth.
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
To bury.
To burrow.
The people on the globe.
The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
A region of the planet; a land or country.
Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
Soil.
The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
Any general rock-based material.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
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).
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.