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WIRE

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

WIRE is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

WIRES-s 2 WIRING 3 WIRED-d 2

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WIRINGS 5
noun
  1. uncountableMetal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
  2. countableuncountableA piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
  3. countableuncountableA metal conductor that carries electricity.
    • That wire powers the lamp.
  4. countableuncountableA fence made of usually barbed wire.
  5. countableuncountableA finish line of a racetrack.
  6. countableinformaluncountableA telecommunication wire or cable.
  7. broadlycountableuncountableAn electric telegraph; a telegram.
  8. countableslanguncountableA hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
  9. countableinformaluncountableA deadline or critical endpoint.
    • This election is going to go right to the wire
  10. countableuncountableA wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
  11. countableuncountableAny 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.
  12. archaiccountableuncountableA pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
  13. countableslanguncountableA covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
  14. ScotlandcountableuncountableA knitting needle.
  15. countableuncountableA long, filamenteous, ornamental feather.
  16. abbreviationclippingcountableinformaluncountableClipping of wire service and/or newswire.
    • Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.
verb
  1. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
    • We need to wire that hole in the fence.
  2. To string on a wire.
    • wire beads
  3. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
    • Do you know how to wire a plug?
  4. To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
    • I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
  5. To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
  6. 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).
  7. figurativelypassiveusuallyTo set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
    • There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
  8. ambitransitiveTo send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
    • Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
    • The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
  9. slangTo make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
    • Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
  10. slangTo install eavesdropping equipment.
    • We wired the suspect's house.
  11. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
  12. transitiveTo place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.