Wire (disambiguation)

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A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing. It may also refer to:

Abbreviations

Note: These terms are often shortened to simply wire, wires or wired.

• Wire, a covert listening device worn as a wire under a person's clothes
• Wire, an informal term for a telegraph, or the act of using a telegraph
• Wire service, a journalism-jargon term for news agency (a newswire or wire service)
• Wire tap, police jargon for covert telephone listening device
• Wire transfer, a method of sending money directly between banks

Types of wire

• Barbed tape or razor wire
• Barbed wire
• Electrical wiring
• Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

People

• Wíres José de Souza, a Brazilian football (soccer) player, often referred to as simply "Wires"
• Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and telecommunications

• Wire (software), an instant messaging application that supports voice and video calling
• Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System (WIRES), a digital transmission mode used in Yaesu amateur radio equipment
• Wire data, data on the wire in a communications system or protocol
• Wire protocol, a method of transmitting data
• Wire Swiss, a software company headquartered in Switzerland that is best known for its messaging application of the same name

Organizations

• NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES), an animal welfare organisation in New South Wales, Australia
• The WIRE project, a charitable organisation in England

Other uses

• Warrington Wolves, a British rugby league team nicknamed The Wire
• Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky
• Wire Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Wire of Death or "the Wire", a lethal electric fence on the Dutch-Belgian border during World War I

See also

• Wired (disambiguation)