wired

[wahy^uhrd]

adjective

1. equipped with wires, as for electricity or telephone service.

2. made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.

   a wired barrier.

3. tied or secured with wires.

   wired bales of wastepaper.

4. strengthened or supported with wires.

   a sculpture of wired papier-mâché.

5. Slang.,  tense with excitement or anticipation; edgy.

6. equipped so as to receive cable television.

7. connected electronically to one or more computer networks.

wired

/ waɪəd /

adjective

1. edgy from stimulant intake

2. excited, nervous, or tense

3. using computers to send and receive information, esp via the internet

Other Word Forms

• well-wired adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wired¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; wire, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Plastic food containers and trays are stacked and wired with lights, feeling at once like retro-futuristic inventions and something cobbled together after the apocalypse.

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Until the day a team from a company called ReplayTV wheeled in a television set wired to a box with a digital hard drive inside.

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Ragoravich is predictably oleaginous, a man with a file cabinet full of hidden agendas, but he is charmingly persuasive, and the money has already been wired into Maggie’s account.

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Dogs are wired to be our protectors and yet, through generations of nurturing, they’ve come to trust that we’ll also protect them.

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It’s a balance that evolution has wired into the human brain.

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Related Words

• connected 
• equipped