To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
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 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.
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.
To conjure with a word.
To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
To ply or overpower with words.
An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
A minor reprimand.
Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
News; tidings
A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
A brief discussion or conversation.
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
See words.
The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
A finite string that is not a command or operator.
A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
Logos, Christ.
Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.