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词条 Wire (disambiguation)
释义

  1. Abbreviations

  2. Types of wire

  3. People

  4. Arts, entertainment, and media

     Fictional entities   Music   Groups  Albums  Songs  News sites  Radio  Television  Channels  Series  Episodes  Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media 

  5. Computing and telecommunications

  6. Organizations

  7. Other uses

  8. See also

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A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing. It may also refer to:

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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
  • Electrical wiring
  • Nanowire, 1-D structures used in nanoelectronics and nanowire battery anodes
  • Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

People

  • Wíres José de Souza, a Brazilian football (soccer) player, often referred to as simply "Wires"
  • Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

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

Music

Groups

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

Albums

  • Wire (Third Day album), album by Third Day
  • Wire (Wire album), album by Wire

Songs

  • "Wire", song by Third Day from Wire (Third Day album)
  • "Wire", song by U2 1984
  • "Wires" (song), 2004 song by Athlete
  • "Wires", song by Red Fang from album Murder the Mountains
  • "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

Television

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 (JTF-GTMO), official weekly newspaper of Joint Task Force Guantanamo
  • The Wire (magazine), cover title Wire, a British music magazine, founded in 1982
  • The Wire Re-up (2009), a book edited by Steve Busfield and Paul Owen

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
  • 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
  • Winged Reusable Sounding rocket (WIRES), by Japan

See also

  • Wired (disambiguation)
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