Rewire vs. Wire — What's the Difference?

To provide with new wiring

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.

To install new wiring.

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

To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation.

A strand or rod of such material, or a cable made of such strands twisted together.

To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic.

Fencing made of wire, especially barbed wire.

The act of replacing the wires of something

Wires The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show.

Provide with new wiring;

(Slang) A hidden microphone, as on a person's body or in a building.

A telephone or telegraph connection

A telegraph service

A telegram or cablegram

A wire service

A pin in the print head of a computer printer.

The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine.

(Sports) The finish line of a racetrack.

(Slang) A pickpocket.

To equip with a system of electrical wires

To attach or connect with electrical wire or cable

To attach or fasten with wire

(Slang) To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example).

To send by telegraph

To send a telegram to (someone).

(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.

To determine genetically; hardwire

To send a telegram.

(uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.

A metal conductor that carries electricity.

A fence made of usually barbed wire.

(sports) A finish line of a racetrack.

(informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.

(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.

(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

(informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.

(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

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.

A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.

(slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.

(Scotland) A knitting needle.

The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

To string on a wire.

To equip with wires for use with electricity.

To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:

To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.

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 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.

To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.

(slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.

(slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.

To snare by means of a wire or wires.

To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

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.

A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

The system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show;

One who picks women's pockets.

A knitting needle.

A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges' stand, to mark the line at which the races end.

To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

To snare by means of a wire or wires.

To send (a message) by telegraph.

To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

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.

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.

To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

To send a telegraphic message.

Ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

A metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

The finishing line on a racetrack

A message transmitted by telegraph

Provide with electrical circuits;

Send cables, wires, or telegrams

Fasten with wire;

String on a wire;

Equip for use with electricity;