wired
Because it is a word with a single syllable, wired is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofwired
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
Example: "We need to wire that hole in the fence."
- To string on a wire.
Example: "wire beads"
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Example: "Do you know how to wire a plug?"
- To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
Example: "I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen."
- (usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.
Example: "There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired."
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
Example: "The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station."
- To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
Example: "Coffee late at night wires me good and proper."
- To install eavesdropping equipment.
Example: "We wired the suspect's house."
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
Example: "After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep."
- Having wiry feathers.
- Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
- Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
Example: "I was dealt three of a kind, wired."
- (of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
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