Wiry

Definition

wire /'waÇǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [U,C] နန္းႀကိဳး။ a coil of copper wire ❍ cut off a length of wire ❍ Leave the cookies to cool on a wire rack. ❍ wire coat-hangers. See also BARBED WIRE, HIGH WIRE, TRIP-WIRE (ခ) [C,U] ဝိုင္ယာႀကိဳး။ ေၾကးနန္းႀကိဳး။ fuse wire ❍ telephone wires. (ဂ) [U,sing] သံဆူးႀကိဳး။ The hamster had got through the wire at the front of its cage. ၂။ [C] ( infml esp US ) ေၾကးနန္းစာ။ သံႀကိဳးစာ။ send sb a wire. v ၁။ ~ A (on) to B; ~ A and B together ဝိုင္ယာႏွင့္ ပူးခ်ည္သည္၊ ဆက္သည္။ The two pieces of wood were wired together. ၂။ (esp passive) (က) ဝိုင္ယာႀကိဳး သြယ္သည္။ လွ်ပ္စစ္သြယ္သည္။ မီးသြယ္သည္။ The house is not wired yet. ❍ As soon as the equipment is wired up, you can use it. (ခ) (ဝိုင္ယာ) တပ္ဆင္သည္။ Researchers were wired up with microphones before asking people their views. ❍ I was wired for sound before being interviewed on TV. ၃။ (က) ( infml esp US ) ေၾကးနန္း႐ိုက္ သည္။ သံႀကိဳးစာပို႔သည္။ I'll wire my parents. ❍ He wired to his brother to send some money. ❍ She wired (us) that she would be delayed. (ခ) ~ sth to sb ( infml esp US ) (ေငြ) ေၾကးနန္း ႏွင့္ပို႔သည္။ wire money to sb/ wire sb money (ie instruct a bank by TELEGRAM to give money to sb). ❏ get one's wires crossed [ IDM ] ( infml ) နားၾကားလြဲသည္။ We seem to have got our wires crossed. I thought you were coming yesterday. ❏ wire-cutter n (esp pl ) နန္းႀကိဳးျဖတ္ကတ္ေၾကး။ a pair of wire-cutters. ❏ wire netting n [U] သံဆန္ခါ။ ❏ wire-tapping n [U] ဖုန္းလိုင္း ၾကားျဖတ္ ခိုးနားေထာင္ျခင္း။ ❏ wire wool n [U] ( Brit ) (တိုက္ခြၽတ္စရာ) နန္းႀကိဳးသပြတ္အူ။ Compare STEEL WOOL ❏ wiring /'waÇǝrÇŋ/ n [U] လွ်ပ္စစ္ႀကိဳး သြယ္တန္းတပ္ဆင္မႈ။ The wiring is faulty and needs to be replaced. ❏ wiry /'waÇǝri/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) (က) က်စ္လ်စ္သန္မာေသာ။ (ခ) (နန္းႀကိဳးကဲ့သို႔) ေကြးႏိုင္ေခါက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ wiry hair.

Examples

1. The sticks were tied in bundles with wire.
2. A piece/bit/length of wire
3. Copper/steel/gold wire
4. A coil/roll of wire
5. A wire coat-hanger
6. A wire fence/cage
7. Wire netting/mesh/fencing
8. Telephone wires