A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.
Wire or wires may also refer to:
Abbreviations
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 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 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
See also Wired (disambiguation) Barb wire (disambiguation) Barbed Wire (disambiguation) Endless Wire (disambiguation) Guide wire (disambiguation) High Wire (disambiguation) Wyre (disambiguation)