Wire (disambiguation)

{{wiktionary|Wire|wire}} A '''wire''' is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.

'''Wire''' or '''wires''' may also refer to:

== Abbreviations == {{Hatnote|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 * Wire, an informal term for a cablegram * Wire service, a journalism-jargon term for news agency (a news''wire'' 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 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

==People== * 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

==Arts, entertainment, and media==

=== Music ===

====Magazines==== *''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==== * Wire TV, a 1992–1995 UK cable television channel * WIRE-CD, a television station (channel 33, virtual 33) licensed to serve Atlanta, Georgia, United States

====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

==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 * 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''