Barbed vs. Wire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Barbed and Wire
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Barbed
Having barbs.
Wire
A wire is a single usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads or electricity and telecommunications signals.
Barbed
Cutting; stinging
Barbed criticism.
Barbed statements.
Wire
Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity, when it is usually insulated with a rubber or plastic cladding
Bought some wire at the hardware store.
Barbed
Having barbs.
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Wire
A strand or rod of such material, or a cable made of such strands twisted together.
Barbed
(heraldry)
Wire
Fencing made of wire, especially barbed wire.
Barbed
(heraldry) Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
Wire
Wires The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.
Barbed
(heraldry) Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
Wire
(Slang) A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.
Barbed
(heraldry) Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
Wire
A telephone or telegraph connection
Who is on the wire?.
Barbed
(of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
Wire
A telegraph service
Sent the message by wire.
Barbed
(of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
Wire
A telegram or cablegram
"Mac got a wire from Milly that Uncle Tim was dead" (John Dos Passos).
Barbed
Simple past tense and past participle of barb
Wire
A wire service
The news came over the wire.
Barbed
Accoutered with defensive armor; - said of a horse. See Barded (which is the proper form.
Wire
A pin in the print head of a computer printer.
Barbed
Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
Wire
The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.
Barbed
Capable of wounding;
A barbed compliment
A biting aphorism
Pungent satire
Wire
(Sports) The finish line of a racetrack.
Barbed
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.;
A horse with a short bristly mane
Bristly shrubs
Burred fruits
Setaceous whiskers
Wire
(Slang) A pickpocket.
Wire
To equip with a system of electrical wires
Wire a house.
Wire
To attach or connect with electrical wire or cable
Is the printer wired to the computer?.
Wire
To attach or fasten with wire
Surgeons wired his shoulder together.
Wire
(Slang) To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).
Wire
To send by telegraph
Wired her congratulations.
Wire
To send a telegram to (someone).
Wire
(Computers) To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming.
Wire
To determine genetically; hardwire
"It is plausible that the basic organization of grammar is wired into the child's brain" (Steven Pinker).
Wire
To send a telegram.
Wire
(uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
Wire
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Wire
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
Wire
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
Wire
(sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
Wire
(informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
Wire
(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
Wire
(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
Wire
(informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
This election is going to go right to the wire
Wire
(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
Wire
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
To pull the wires for office
Wire
A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
Wire
(slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
Wire
(Scotland) A knitting needle.
Wire
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
Wire
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
We need to wire that hole in the fence.
Wire
To string on a wire.
Wire beads
Wire
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Do you know how to wire a plug?
Wire
To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
Wire
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
Wire
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
Wire
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is keeping up with current information about (the thing) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
Wire
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.
Wire
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.
Wire
(slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
Wire
(slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
We wired the suspect's house.
Wire
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
Wire
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
Wire
A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
Wire
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
Wire
The system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show;
Wire
One who picks women's pockets.
Wire
A knitting needle.
Wire
A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges' stand, to mark the line at which the races end.
Wire
To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
Wire
To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
Wire
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
Wire
To send (a message) by telegraph.
Wire
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
Wire
To equip with a system of wiring, especially for supply of electrical power or communication; as, to wire an office for networking the computers; to wire a building with 220-Volt current.
Wire
To equip with an electronic system for eavesdropping; to bug; as, to wire the office of a mob boss; to wire an informant so as to record his conversations.
Wire
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
Wire
To send a telegraphic message.
Wire
Ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
Wire
A metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
Wire
The finishing line on a racetrack
Wire
A message transmitted by telegraph
Wire
Provide with electrical circuits;
Wire the addition to the house
Wire
Send cables, wires, or telegrams
Wire
Fasten with wire;
The columns were wired to the beams for support
Wire
String on a wire;
Wire beads
Wire
Equip for use with electricity;
Electrify an appliance
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