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

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
• 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)