Wire_(disambiguation)
Wire (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.
Wire or wires may also refer to:
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
- Barbed wire, steel fencing wire
- Chicken wire, a mesh of wire
- Concertina wire, a type of barbed wire or razor wire
- Copper-clad aluminium wire, inner aluminium core and outer copper cladding
- Electrical wiring, electrical installation of cabling and associated devices
- Electroluminescent wire, thin copper wire coated in a phosphor
- Glass-coated wire, fine glass-coated metal filaments
- Magnet wire, copper or aluminium wire coated with a very thin layer of insulation
- Nanowire, 1-D structures used in nanoelectronics and nanowire battery anodes
- Razor wire
- Wire rope, twisted strands of metal wire
- Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire
- Wíres (footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian football player
- Coy Wire (born 1978), American footballer, television anchor, and correspondent
- Edith Wire (1899-1973), American composer, pianist, and writer; Lester's sister
- Lester Wire (1887–1958), inventor, Edith's brother
- Nicky Wire (born 1969), musician with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers
- Kurt Wires (1919–1992), sprint canoer
Music
Magazine
- The Wire (magazine), cover title Wire, a British music magazine, founded in 1982
Groups
- Wire (band), British punk/post-punk group (1976–present)
Albums
- Wire (Third Day album), a 2004 album by Third Day
- Wire (Wire album), a 2015 album by Wire
- Wires (album), a 2001 album by Art of Fighting
Songs
- "Wires" (song), by Athlete, 2004
- "The Wire" (David Dallas song), featuring Ruby Frost, 2013
- "The Wire" (Haim song), 2013
- "Wire", a song by U2 from their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire
- "Wire", by Third Day from the album Wire, 2004
- "Wires", by Red Fang from the album Murder the Mountains, 2011
- "Wires", by The Neighbourhood, 2012
News sites
- The Wire (India), an Indian news website
- The Wire, a defunct website published by The Atlantic
Radio
- WIRE (FM), a radio station at 91.1 FM licensed to Lebanon, Indiana
- The Wire (radio program), an Australian current-affairs program
- The Wire, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication's student radio station
- WXNT, an Indianapolis, Indiana (1430 AM) radio station, which held the WIRE call sign from 1935 to 1989
Television
Channels
Series
- The Wire, a 2002–2008 HBO police drama TV series
Episodes
- "The Wire" (Curb Your Enthusiasm), the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
- "The Wire" (The Wire episode), the sixth episode of The Wire TV series
- "The Wire" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Other uses in media
- The Wire (JTF-GTMO), official weekly newspaper of Joint Task Force Guantanamo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Winged Reusable Sounding rocket (WIRES), by Japan
- 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
- "The wire", an elaborate obsolete con used in the film The Sting
- Wired (disambiguation)
- Barb wire (disambiguation)
- Barbed Wire (disambiguation)
- Endless Wire (disambiguation)
- Guide wire (disambiguation)
- High Wire (disambiguation)
- Wyre (disambiguation)
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