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wire ~ wire

[the same pronunciation that rhymes with “fire”]

“Wire”, as a noun, is ‘a thin long round metal string (thread) that is used for binding things or making fences and meshes; a thin long metal string that is used for carrying electrical power or signals;{ mostly American} a telegram’; and as a verb, it is ‘to connect wires that carry electrical power from one point(place) to another; to connect a piece of electrical equipment to the main electric power point so that the current passes from the source to the equipment; to send money from one place to another electronically; {mostly American} to send a telegram’,

e.g.

We tied the two poles together with a thin steel wire.

The company put up a barbed wire fence to deter petty thieves.

The electrician wired up wrong connections and the mains tripped off.

All the rooms in our hotel have been wired for cable TV.

My friend wired, asking me to wire him $100 immediately.

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“Wire”, as a noun, is ‘some small electrical or electronic equipment that is hidden in the clothes of a person or in some furniture of a building so that the others can hear, record or sometimes see what is said or going on around that person or in that place’, as a verb, it is ‘to place or hide some electrical or electronic equipment in the clothes of a person or in a place to find out the goings-on in and around that person or place’,

e.g.

The smugglers finally found out that the secret agent who had been posing as a businessman was wired, and so removed the secret equipment from under his coat and shot him on the spot.

The police placed a wire in the ransom bag before giving it to the kidnappers, and very soon found out their hide-out and surrounded them.

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