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Connected to an electricity supply
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wired
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wired "made of wire," past participle adjective from wire (v.). From early 15c. as "stiffened by wires." Meaning "nervous, jittery" is by 1970s; earlier (1959, perhaps early 1950s) "using narcotic drugs, addicted to drugs."
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wired is a 2008 three-part television miniseries starring Jodie Whittaker , Laurence Fox and Toby Stephens . It debuted on ITV at 9:00pm on Monday 13 October 2008 and was shown over three consecutive Mondays.
Usage examples of wired.
The secondary coil of a large induction coil was placed in series with them, and batteries were wired in series with the primary of the coil with a sending key to make and break the circuit.
As in the case of his receiving station, Marconi found that results were much improved when he wired his sending apparatus so that one terminal was grounded and the other connected with an elevated wire or aerial, which is now called the antenna.
Her own monitors had been doing their job, erasing any signs of her occasional fully wired forays onto the main nets, and there was no sign that this new Trouble, whoever it was, had been using her nodes as a staging area.
He saw that the metal casing which held it was wired for power, with cables snaking down the insides of the dome and disappearing from sight.
He snapped small plugs into receivers and wired up the crisis engine to the dynamos and transformers that converted one uncanny form of energy into another.
Instead, shanties have sprung up, leaning together, nailed or wired or tied.
An hour and a half later, it wired to the Central Telegraph Office the coded message ordering the 1 p.
The laboratory assistant drew several brushes, all wired together in a holder and each dipped in a different developer, diagonally across the suspected documents.
He had none to give me but wired the chief despatcher at Big Rock, and in answer thereto I was sent the next morning to Healyville.
Bentonville quit rather suddenly one fall morning, and as I had no immediate relief in prospect, I wired the chief despatcher of the division south of me to send me a man if he had any to spare.
Colonel Clarke wired his chief that his command was ready, and at midnight he received orders to proceed the next morning at daylight, by forced marches up to the junction of the forks of the Red Bud, and take position there to intercept the Indians should they attempt to cross.
The coils were wired together and other wires ran out through the hole in the bottom of the control box.
For they built me well on Earth, silver wired, chromed steel, machine turned.
Sam opened the cigar box and held it out: it contained a lump of metal, a number of small electronic components and a two-inch speaker, all neatly wired and soldered together.
Sam smiled and opened the box, pointing to the precisely wired circuits inside.