wire – English noun declension

English noun forms of wire

Noun: wire
Singularwire
Pluralwires

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: cable; wire rope; wiring harness; wire wool
  • From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away. [2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:]
  • That wire powers the lamp.
  • Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires. [2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:]
  • The episode began by a telephone ring in the morning and the voice of Algernon Mailey at the far end of the wire. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
  • Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." [Telephone rings.] Hello! This is the Central Office. Yes. Certainly. Well, send them a wire. Good. [Hangs up telephone.] Where did I leave off? [c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:]
  • “Oh, hadn’t I told you?” the other said quickly. “I had a wire yesterday. He landed in New York Wednesday. It was such a mixed-up sort of message, I never could understand what he was trying to tell me, except that he would have to stay in New York for a week or so. It was over fifty words long.” [1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:]
  • This election is going to go right to the wire
  • If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire [1988, The Traveling Wilburys, “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”, in The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1:]
  • to pull the wires for office
  • Over the forehead is a large patch of pure white feathers, which shine like satin; and from the sides of the head spring the six wonderful feathers from which the bird receives its name. These are slender wires, six inches long, with a small oval web at the extremity. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 409:]
  • Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.

Etymology

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

Verbs referencing "wire"

Irish Nouns fiar, Finnish Nouns vaijeri, Swedish Nouns vajer, French Nouns guirlande, Finnish Nouns viira, Spanish Nouns guirnalda, Latin Nouns viria, Russian Nouns гирлянда, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns vaier, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vaier, Latin Nouns vibia, Ancient Greek Nouns ἶρις.