wire
/ˈwaɪɚ/ verbo B2En español: cablear
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. · We need to wire that hole in the fence.
- To string on a wire. · wire beads
- To equip with wires for use with electricity. · Do you know how to wire a plug?
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring. · I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way. · 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. · Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.· The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
He/she/it wires · Pasado wired · Participio pasado wired · Forma en -ing wiring
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- wire
- He/she/it
- wires
- Pasado
- wired
- Participio pasado
- wired
- Forma en -ing
- wiring
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
“Possibly,” said Monte Cristo, “I have indeed thought of you, but the magnetic wire I was guiding acted, indeed, without my knowledge.”
“This I hung from the ceiling by a wire,” said Oz.
Wire me what train in the morning you can get for Birlstone, and I will meet it—or have it met if I am too occupied.
The triggers had been wired together, so as to make the simultaneous discharge more destructive.
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