WIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wired mean? 

• WIRED (adjective)
  The adjective WIRED has 3 senses:

1. equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service

2. tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline

3. tied or bound with wire

  Familiarity information: WIRED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service

Context example:

a well-wired house

Similar:

bugged (having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices)

connected (wired together to an alarm system)

Antonym:

wireless (having no wires)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline

Synonyms:

pumped; pumped-up; pumped up; wired

Context example:

he was so pumped he couldn't sleep

Similar:

tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tied or bound with wire

Context example:

wired bundles of newspapers

Similar:

bound (confined by bonds)

 Context examples 

Overall, the findings suggest that mothers’ responses to infant cries are hard-wired and generalizable across cultures.

(Study identifies brain patterns underlying mothers’ responses to infant cries, National Institutes of Health)

Individual differences in how you behave or feel can be caused by a variety of factors, including how your brain is wired or the hormones in your body.

(Anxiety molecules affect male and female mice differently, NIH)

Having got them I let my man go, but I wired full particulars to Forbes this morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The theory follows that the illusion occurred because our brains are wired to try to understand what we see by factoring context into our perception.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Communications problems between devices within a wired system.

(Device Wired Communication Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

I wired to Mr. Gregson to run you down in London while I examined Wisteria Lodge.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was wired for at 3:15, reached Yoxley Old Place at 5, conducted my investigation, was back at Charing Cross by the last train, and straight to you by cab.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“This is a map of the Colony of Victoria,” he said. “I wired to Bristol for it last night.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes had already wired to Forbes, and we found him waiting to receive us—a small, foxy man with a sharp but by no means amiable expression.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)