hard-wired
or hard·wired
Computers.
built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed.
(of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
(of electrical or electronic components) connected by hardwiring.
pertaining to or being an intrinsic and relatively unmodifiable behavior pattern: Every cricket has a hard-wired pattern of chirps.
Origin of hard-wired
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How to use hard-wired in a sentence
We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter all, our bodies are hard wired to recognize the difference between “me” and “not me.”
Democrats are never going to win back the white working class; at this point the cultural politics are just too hard-wired.
hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth.
Obama’s Extravagant Summer Break? More Like, America’s Vacation-Deficit Disorder | Clive Irving | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd of course there is the gene, that hard-wired Calvinist gateway to gloomy fate.
Indeed, successful action was seen as a result of logic, hard-wired as part of the biological endowment.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
British Dictionary definitions for hard-wired
(of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
(of human behaviour) innate; not learned: humans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language
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Cultural definitions for hardwired
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