Wiring

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of attaching, connecting, or installing electric wires.
  • n. A system of electric wires.
  • n. A part of the body's physiology or neurology that determines or controls something, such as a capability or disorder: "Evolution, having made the basic computational units of language innate, may have seen no need to replace every bit of learned information with innate wiring” ( Steven Pinker).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of wire.
  • n. A system of electric wires.
  • n. The act of installing wiring.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of one that wires anything.
  • n. The wires or conductors employed in any system in which electric voltages or current are transmitted between components.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In surgery, the holding in apposition of the ends of a fractured bone by means of wire passed through holes drilled in the bony substance: a method employed most frequently in cases of fractured patella, in which bony union is especially difficult to obtain.
  • n. In taxidermy, the setting or fixing of the skin on a wire framework or the insertion of a wire in any member: as, the wiring of the legs was faulty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device
  • n. a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Verb Stem
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acquiring    admiring    aspiring    conspiring    expiring    firing    hiring    inspiring    perspiring    quiring