The difference between Electrify and Wire
When used as verbs, electrify means to supply electricity to, whereas wire means to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
Wire is also noun with the meaning: metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
check bellow for the other definitions of Electrify and Wire
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Electrify as a verb (transitive):
To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
Examples:
"to electrify a cable"
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Electrify as a verb (transitive):
To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
Examples:
"to electrify a limb, or the body"
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Electrify as a verb (transitive):
To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power.
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Electrify as a verb (transitive):
To strongly excite, especially by something delightful or inspiring; to thrill.
Examples:
"Her performance in the play electrified the audience."
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Electrify as a verb (intransitive):
To become electric.
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Wire as a noun (uncountable):
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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Wire as a noun:
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
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Wire as a noun:
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
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Wire as a noun:
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
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Wire as a noun (sports):
A finish line of a racetrack.
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Wire as a noun (informal):
A telecommunication wire or cable
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Wire as a noun (by extension):
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
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Wire as a noun (slang):
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
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Wire as a noun (informal):
A deadline or critical endpoint.
Examples:
"This election is going to go right to the wire'"
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Wire as a noun (billiards):
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
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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"
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Wire as a noun (archaic, thieves' slang):
A pickpocket who targets women.
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Wire as a noun (slang):
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
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Wire as a noun (Scotland):
A knitting needle.
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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."
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Wire as a verb:
To string on a wire.
Examples:
"'wire beads"
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Wire as a verb:
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Wire as a verb (slang):
To install eavesdropping equipment.
Examples:
"We wired the suspect's house."
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Wire as a verb:
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
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Wire as a verb (transitive, croquet):
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.