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wire

noun as in conducting strand

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This 300 LED light set works for up to 15,000 hours and the wire won’t overheat over time.

Three years later, Jaka Tušek of the University of Ljubljana and others observed a change of 25 degrees in similar wires.

Having applied for financial aid only days before, she wired the money to the number the caller gave her.

In that dispute, the city says it actually costs much less to bury a mile of wire than SDG&E charged.

He’d carefully make the rounds, maneuvering around ventilators and webs of wires and hoses, doing anything he could in the minutes he had to lighten the load, if only briefly, for suffering families.

And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.

To Hitchcock, this is not a sweet wire from an old colleague but a condolence letter on the occasion of his own death.

On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.

That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.

They require frequent cleaning with a long wire and a bit of tow, and in some large towns there are professional pipe-cleaners.

Wire Nails, Staples, &c., are made at Nettlefold's by machinery much in advance of what can ba seen elsewhere.

I need fourteen wire ropes, all pulling in different directions, to hold me steady.

The Post Office arrangements were also of a very primitive character, nor was there any wire nearer than Thetford.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wire, such as: cable, coil, line, strand, thread, and message.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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