Wire (disambiguation)

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, 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 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

Magazine

• 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)

1. Fly by wire
2. Trolley wire
3. Barbed Wire
4. Wired
5. Barb Wire
6. Fly wire
7. Hotwire
8. Down to the Wire
9. Wireframe
10. Endless Wire
11. Guide wire
12. High Wire
13. Walking the Wire
14. A Bouquet of Barbed Wire
15. Bird on a Wire
16. Wired to the Moon (disambiguation)
17. Firewire (disambiguation)
18. Barb
19. Wire-haired
20. Hardwire