Wired

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wire \Wire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wiring}.]
     1. To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to;
        as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To send (a message) by telegraph. [Colloq.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. (Croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket
        prevents a successful shot.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     6. to equip with a system of wiring, especially for supply of
        electrical power or communication; as, to wire an office
        for networking the computers; to wire a building with
        220-Volt current.
        [PJC]
  
     7. to equip with an electronic system for eavesdropping; to
        bug; as, to wire the office of a mob boss; to wire an
        informant so as to record his conversations.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wired
       adj 1: equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or
              telephone service; "a well-wired house" [ant: {wireless}]
       2: tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of
          adrenaline; "we were really pumped up for the race"; "he
          was so pumped he couldn't sleep" [syn: {pumped-up(a)}, {pumped
          up(p)}, {pumped(p)}]
       3: tied or bound with wire; "wired bundles of newspapers"

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  wired n. See {hardwired}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  wired
       
          {hard-wired}