Wire (disambiguation)

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A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing. It may also refer to:

Abbreviations

Note: These terms are often shortened to simply wire, wires or wired.

• 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
• Wire, a covert listening device worn as a wire under a person's clothes
• Wire, an informal term for a telegraph, or the act of using a telegraph

Types of wire

• Barbed tape or razor wire
• Barbed wire
• Electrical wiring
• Monomolecular wire, a fictional type of wire used as a weapon to cut and sever objects
• Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

Computer networking and telecommunications

• Wire data, data on the wire in a communications system or protocol
• Wire protocol, a method of transmitting data

People

• Wíres José de Souza, a Brazilian football (soccer) player, often referred to as simply "Wires"
• Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

Film TV and radio

• WIRE (FM), a radio station at 91.1 FM licensed to Lebanon, Indiana
• The Wire, formerly The Atlantic Wire, Atlantic Media news aggregator site
• The Wire, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication's student radio station
• Wire TV, a 1992–1995 UK cable television channel
• WIRE-CD, a television station at channel 40 licensed to Atlanta, Georgia
• The Wire, a 2002–2008 HBO police drama TV series
• "The Wire" (episode), the sixth episode of The Wire TV series
• "The Wire" (Curb Your Enthusiasm), the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
• "The Wire" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "The Wire", a Doctor Who alien lifeform

Books, films, and magazines

• The Wire (JTF-GTMO), official weekly newspaper of Joint Task Force Guantanamo
• The Wire (magazine), a British music magazine, founded in 1982
• The Wire Re-up (2009), a book edited by Steve Busfield and Paul Owen

Music

Groups

• Wire (band), British post-punk group (1976–present)

Albums

• Wire (Third Day album), album by Third Day
• Wire (Wire album), album by Wire

Songs

• "Wire", song by Third Day from Wire (Third Day album)
• "Wire", song by U2 1984
• "Wires" (song), 2004 song by Athlete
• "The Wire" (David Dallas song), featuring Ruby Frost, 2013
• "The Wire" (Haim song), 2013

Other uses

• The Wire, nickname of the Warrington Wolves, a British rugby league team
• Wire Swiss, a software company headquartered in Switzerland that is best known for its messaging application of the same name
• 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
• Wide Field Infrared Explorer, a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky
• Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System (WIRES), a digital transmission mode used in Yaesu amateur radio equipment

Acronyms, 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

See also

• Wired (disambiguation)