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wired

/waɪɹd/ adjectif B2

En français : branché, sur écoute, attaché, surexcité

  1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
  2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
  3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
  4. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung. (slang) · After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
  5. Having wiry feathers.
  6. All worked out; completely understood. (slang)
  7. Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down. (slang)
  8. Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud. (slang) · I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
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Dans la bibliothèque

I have wired to get his name and address from the Official Registry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 57 · C1
The triggers had been wired together, so as to make the simultaneous discharge more destructive.
The Valley of Fear, p. 27 · C1
They were buckshot cartridges, and, as Sergeant Wilson pointed out, the triggers were wired together so that, if you pulled on the hinder one, both barrels were discharged.
The Valley of Fear, p. 35 · C1
Holmes had already wired to Forbes, and we found him waiting to receive us—a small, foxy man with a sharp but by no means amiable expression.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · B2

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