The difference between Conducting wire and Wire

When used as nouns, conducting wire means any metal wire used to carry electricity over a short or long distance, whereas wire means metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.


Wire is also verb with the meaning: to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Conducting wire and Wire

  1. Conducting wire as a noun:

    Any metal wire used to carry electricity over a short or long distance.

  1. Wire as a noun (uncountable):

    Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.

  2. Wire as a noun:

    A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.

  3. Wire as a noun:

    A metal conductor that carries electricity.

  4. Wire as a noun:

    A fence made of usually barbed wire.

  5. Wire as a noun (sports):

    A finish line of a racetrack.

  6. Wire as a noun (informal):

    A telecommunication wire or cable

  7. Wire as a noun (by extension):

    An electric telegraph; a telegram.

  8. Wire as a noun (slang):

    A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

  9. Wire as a noun (informal):

    A deadline or critical endpoint.

    Examples:

    "This election is going to go right to the wire'"

  10. Wire as a noun (billiards):

    A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

  11. Wire as a noun (usually plural):

    Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.

    Examples:

    "to pull the wires for office"

  12. Wire as a noun (archaic, thieves' slang):

    A pickpocket who targets women.

  13. Wire as a noun (slang):

    A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.

  14. Wire as a noun (Scotland):

    A knitting needle.

  1. Wire as a verb:

    To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.

    Examples:

    "We need to wire that hole in the fence."

  2. Wire as a verb:

    To string on a wire.

    Examples:

    "'wire beads"

  3. Wire as a verb:

    To equip with wires for use with electricity.

  4. Wire as a verb:

    To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.

    Examples:

    "I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen."

  5. Wire as a verb (informal):

    To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.

    Examples:

    "Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling."

  6. Wire as a verb:

    To make someone tense or psyched up.

    Examples:

    "I'm never going to sleep: I'm completely wired from all that coffee."

  7. Wire as a verb (slang):

    To install eavesdropping equipment.

    Examples:

    "We wired the suspect's house."

  8. Wire as a verb:

    To snare by means of a wire or wires.

  9. Wire as a verb (transitive, croquet):

    To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.