Wire (disambiguation)

A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.

wire 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, steel fencing wire
- Concertina wire, a type of barbed wire or razor wire
Chicken wire, a mesh of 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
Wire (metal rope), twisted strands of metal wire
Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

People

Wíres José de Souza (born 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player, often referred to as simply "Wires"
Coy Wire (born 1978), American footballer, television anchor, and correspondent
Lester Wire (1887–1958), inventor
Nicky Wire (born 1969), musician with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers
Kurt Wires (1919–1992), sprint canoer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Monomolecular wire, a fictional type of wire used as a weapon to cut and sever objects
"The Wire", a Doctor Who alien lifeform

Groups

Wire (band), British post-punk group (1976–present)

Albums

Wire (Third Day album), a 2004 album by Third Day
Wire (Wire album), a 2015 album by Wire

Songs

"Wire" (U2 song), 1984
"Wire", by Third Day from the album Wire, 2004
"Wires" (song), by Athlete, 2004
"Wires", by Red Fang from the album Murder the Mountains, 2011
"Wires", by The Neighbourhood, 2012
"The Wire" (David Dallas song), featuring Ruby Frost, 2013
"The Wire" (Haim song), 2013

News sites

The Wire, formerly The Atlantic Wire, Atlantic Media news aggregator site
The Wire (India), an Indian news website

Radio

WIRE (FM), a radio station at 91.1 FM licensed to Lebanon, Indiana
The Wire, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication's student radio station

Channels

Wire TV, a 1992–1995 UK cable television channel
WIRE-CD, a television station at channel 40 licensed to Atlanta, Georgia

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" (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 arts, entertainment, and media

The Wire (magazine), cover title Wire, a British music magazine, founded in 1982
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