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# wire

«wire» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long thin piece of metal that can bend** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wire, wires); verb (wire, wires, wired, wiring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wire is a long thin piece of metal that can bend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#m1)

2) An electric wire carries electricity, often inside a plastic cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#m2)

3) To wire something is to put in wires for electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#m3)

4) «Wired» in speech can mean very excited and awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a length cut into equal pieces or bent into a shape (the wire's length is the perimeter). In science: wires in an electric circuit carry current from the battery to the bulb; copper wire conducts electricity, plastic covers insulate. In everyday life: a wire fence, a coat hanger, phone cables. Phrases: «electric wire», «wire fence», «barbed wire», «down to the wire» (until the very end).

### examples

- She has 60 cm of wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x1)
- He cut the wire into 5 equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x2)
- A square is made from 40 cm of wire. How long is each side? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x3)
- Each fence needs 20 meters of wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x4)
- Connect the bulb to the battery with two wires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x5)
- The wire is covered in plastic to keep us safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x6)
- The cows stay inside the wire fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x7)
- The race went right down to the wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x8)
- Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/#x9)

### note

Countable for pieces («a wire»), uncountable for the material («some wire», «a roll of wire»). Maths: cutting into equal pieces divides; bending wire into a shape — the wire's length is the perimeter. Safety: never touch wires that come out of a wall or a broken plug.

### In the corpora

- [Wires can hold actors up safely, and the wires are removed later by computer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/6/)
- [The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/23/)
- [Metals pass heat along very well, and electricity too, which is why wires are copper inside their plastic coat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/1/)
- ["Live wire" means a very energetic, hyperactive child (one so full of energy that he cannot keep still).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/12/)
- [Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.