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▪ I. wired, ppl. a.|waɪəd|
[f. wire n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Supported, strengthened, or stiffened with wire; spec. of glass.
1413Churchw. Acc. St. Michael's, Oxford (MS.) Pro xiiii libris de wyred candel iis. xi.d. 1480in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeol. Jrnl. (1913) Oct. 85 Paied y⊇ same John for wyred candell at Cristmas vd. 1654Webster Appius & Virg. v. ii, He that would tame a Lion, doth not use the goad or wierd whip, but a sweet voice. 1844Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 88 The box contains a reel round which the wired string is wound. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate iv, A lovely bouquet came for me—not a nasty wired affair, but just a lot of loose flowers. 1908Rosenhain Glass Manuf. 27 In wired plate glass..an entire layer of wire netting is interposed between two layers of glass. 1930Engineering 12 Dec. 755/1 Plate glass, rolled figured glass, corrugated glass, and wired glass, all produced by rolling. 1979P. Way Sunrise xi. 116 He had pushed through the wired-glass door.
2. Furnished with or consisting of a wire fence or netting for confinement or protection.
1748Richardson Clarissa III. lxxv. 348 It [sc. a captive bird]..with meditating eyes, first surveys, and then attempts, its wired canopy. 1816in J. Scott Vis. Paris xv. (ed. 5) 237 The lower shelves only are protected by doors and wired frames. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. xvi, As bats at the wired window of a dairy, They beat their vans. 1880Carnegie Pract. Trap. 43 Traps..placed round a wired pheasant inclosure ought to be effective. 1903T. F. Dale Fox-hunting in Shires 21 A hunting crowd melts away..when the country is open. A wired district, however, will soon bring them together again. 1918Daily Mail 12 Aug. 2/6 The troops..held up by deep gullies and wired woods. 1919Blackw. Mag. June 831/1 The wired-over, sandy road.
3. Fastened or secured with wire. Also with up, and fig.
wired on, designating a kind of tyre which is secured to the wheel-rim by means of wire.
In first quot., Contained in a bottle having a wired cork.
1798Lady Hunter in Sir M. Hunter's Jrnl. 19 Sept. (1894) 119 Had Majors Wemyss and Gordon to eat cold tongue and drink wired porter..at twelve. 1850H. Melville White Jacket II. xlvi. 308 The Surgeon stalked over the side, the wired skeleton carried in his wake by his cot-boy. 1865Athenæum 9 Dec. 803/1 Birch wine,..the native impetuosity of which had to be restrained by wired corks. 1897Pemberton Complete Cyclist 82 The most suitable rim for any kind of wired-on tyre. 1946Coast to Coast 1945 216 The gate was thoroughly wired up—three Queensland hitches of No. 8 wire. 1975Washington Post 29 Sept. a–20/4 Let us..concede that point for a moment—although it shouldn't be conceded until it is properly wired up with all sorts of qualifications.
4. Of a horse's foot (see wire v. 4).
1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. i. 3 Chuse him [i.e. a horse] that is..strong ioynted, and hollow houes, of which the long is best, if they be not wierd. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3211/4 A Chesnut Mare Colt, two years old,..the hind feet and one before white, wired behind. 1864E. Mayhew Horse Managem. 463 Where the heels have become ‘wired in’.
5. Croquet. (See wire v. 5.)
1868Chamb. Encycl. X. 485/2 A Wired Ball is one which cannot be croqued, by reason of the leg of the hoop intervening.
6. a. Employing wires or similar physical connections to convey electric signals, spec. for television or radio.
1924Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. XI. 6/1 Here are some extremely interesting particulars regarding ‘Wired Radio’ Broadcasting. 1930E. E. Hunt Audit Amer. 20 In 1913 there were only 48 wired homes per 1,000 of the non-farm population. 1937Wireless World 2 Dec. 565/2 (heading) Wired television. 1958Oxford Mail 26 Aug. 3/6 In a discussion on wired television..Coun. W. G. White asked if the present or any future council was going to bar the television aerial from its housing estates. 1960Gregory & Van Horn Automatic Data-Processing Systems ii. 61 Computers with externally stored programs..get their operating instructions from wired plugboards. 1960Electronics Weekly 30 Nov. 2/4 A wired sound and television service may soon be provided..for Leicester. 1969Electr. Communications XLIV. i. 14/1 The best compromise was sought between wired-logic control, which is very efficient but inflexible, and stored-program control. 1971New Scientist 1 July 19/2 It is often argued that the provision of more radio and TV channels, particularly on the greatly expanded scale of the ‘wired city’, will lower standards. 1972Listener 6 July 3/2 As America becomes increasingly a wired nation, with cables reaching out already into millions of homes, the channel limitations of over-the-air television are being superseded. 1976Brzozowski & Yoeli Digital Networks ii. 30 Wired logic refers to the capability of tying together the outputs of gates to realize either the and..or the or..function without additional hardware.
b. Fitted with, or wearing, an electronic listening device; more fully wired for sound. Also fig. colloq.
1957J. D. MacDonald Man of Affairs ix. 141 The joint is wired, he says... The next step is cameras and infra red and tape recorders, I guess. 1967Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 18/3 Several agreed with the words of one who said he knew enough ‘to stay away from Karafin... He's wired for sound 24 hours a day... He can keep stories out of the paper or get them in.’ 1982G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim xiv. 129 The very idea of being ‘off the record’ was nonsense, since the room was almost certainly wired.
c. With up in either of prec. senses.
1971New Scientist 16 Sept. 614 (heading) The visual systems in their brain are wired up to match the visual world that is important to them. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xix. 197 That one-sided chat you had with the wired-up Goddess of Mercy. 1982P. D. James Skull beneath Skin xxv. 210 She was glad that she wasn't wired up to a lie machine. 1984Listener 26 July 20/1 Dr Glover came to the orchestra on the strength of being well wired-up with broadcasting contacts.
Add:7. a. With up. Annoyed, incensed; provoked. U.S. slang. rare.
1903Farmer & Henley Slang VII. 359/2 Wired up, adj. phr. (American), irritated; provoked.
b. In a state of nervous excitement; tense, anxious, edgy. Also with up. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1982A. Maupin Further Tales of City lxxix. 165 ‘Want some coffee?’ ‘I think I'll wait’, said Mary Ann. ‘I'm wired enough as it is’. 1983E. Pizzey Watershed xxvi. 221 He's really wired up. It's fun to see him do the jumping for a change. 1984D. L. Lindsey Heat from Another Sun (1985) i. 1 He just wanted to close his eyes..but he was still so damn wired he wouldn't sleep for a week... He was pumped so tight with adrenaline. 1988P. Monette Borrowed Time vi. 150, I..had lunch that day with Carol..and though I didn't blurt my numbers, she recalls how wired I was. 1990Independent 3 May 19/7 If he'd started the week expansive, unsweaty, not noticeably wired, he ended it, several dozen promotional encounters later, travelling at media-speed.
8. to have (got) it wired, etc. = to have (got) it made s.v. made ppl. a. 7 c. Similarly with stated obj. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1955Amer. Speech XXX. 118 Made; wired,..all obstacles overcome, no further difficulty anticipated; nothing to worry about; in such utterances as ‘He's got it made’. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone i. 9 You got it made, man. You know that? You got it wired. 1985Dirt Bike Mar. 8/2 All he had to do was stay on time..maybe even drop a few more points, and he still had it wired. 1987R.A.D./BMX Action Bike Sept. 9/3 Sweeney had that course wired from the start, leaving the heavyweights, Frank Wheeler and Phil Burgoyne to battle it out for second and third.
9. Under the influence of drugs or alcohol; intoxicated, ‘high’. Also with up. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1977Daily Mirror (Austral.) 26 May 30/1 Sometimes drugs could trigger Presley into the most incredible of highs... But when he was ‘wired’..his mood and actions assumed black violence. 1985Fortune 24 June 26/1 From a cocaine-abusing denizen of Wall Street: ‘I worked on both Chrysler refinancings, and by the second one, I was wired most of the time.’ 199020/20 July 88/3 He brings a danger and physicality rarely seen over here to the role of Pale, a weirdo wired up on speed and brandy.
10. Furnished or equipped with a natural ability to do something. Cf. hard-wired a. 2. colloq.
1986Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 61/1 Apart from being wired to kill, one species of shark has a nose that can detect one part of tuna juice in 25 million parts of seawater.
▸ Computing colloq. Making use of computers and information technology to send or receive information; esp. having an Internet connection.
1985P. Laurie Databases vi. 116 Although much reviled by advocates of the ‘wired society’..a computer disk through the post is a very quick and convenient way of exchanging data. 1995Wired Jan. 101/2 My host..has an Internet address and a 486. He's got WordPerfect and Paradox and Corel Draw. By Prague standards, Martin is one wired dude. 2008Newsday (Nexis) 8 Mar. b6, 44 percent of all Internet users were trying out online banking, but only 25 percent of wired people over 60 had given it a whirl.
▪ II. wired
obs. form of weird n. |