wyre
wyre is the obsolete spelling of wire.
Meaning of wire
Noun
wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)
- Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- Holonyms: cable; wire rope; wiring harness; wire wool
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- That wire powers the lamp.
- Synonyms:
- conducting wire
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- Synonyms:
- barbed wire
- A finish line of a racetrack.
- A telecommunication wire or cable.
- The episode began by a telephone ring in the morning and the voice of Algernon Mailey at the far end of the wire.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Proper noun capitalized: Wyre
Wyre
- A river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
- A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, which is named after the river.
Forms of wyre
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Words formed from wyre
Questions about wyre
- What does wyre mean?
- Wyre means a river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
- What is wyre the obsolete spelling of?
- Wyre is the obsolete spelling of wire.
- What part of speech is wyre?
- Wyre is a proper noun.
Words near wyre in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wyre (page history and authors); Wyre (page history and authors); wire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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