wire: [OE] Wire probably goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *wi- ‘plait’. Related forms in other Germanic languages have now largely died out. The adjective wireless is first recorded in 1894 (in the term wireless telephone); its use as a noun dates from around 1903.
wire (n.)
Old English wir "metal drawn out into a fine thread," from Proto-Germanic *wira- (cognates: Old Norse viravirka "filigree work," Swedish vira "to twist," Old High German wiara "fine gold work"), from PIE *wei- (1) "to turn, twist, plait" (cognates: Old Irish fiar, Welsh gwyr "bent, crooked;" Latin viere "to bend, twist," viri? "bracelets," of Celtic origin). A wire as marking the finish line of a racecourse is attested from 1883; hence the figurative down to the wire. Wire-puller in the political sense is 1848, American English, on the image of pulling the wires that work a puppet.
wire (v.)
c. 1300, "adorn with (gold) wire," from wire (n.). From 1859 as "communicate by means of a telegraphic wire;" 1891 as "furnish with electrical wires and connections." Related: Wired; wiring.
例文
1. The one thousand pound bomb was triggereed by a wire .
その重さ1000ポンドの爆弾は1本の導線によって引き起こされた。
2.I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office.
私は彼のオフィスに通じる電話線を抜いた。
3.A youth was inside the car，attempting to hot- wire it.
小さな青年が車の中で電線を短絡する方法で車を発進させようとしている。
4.She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
彼女は自分で家に電線を引いたり、水道管を敷設したりすることを学んだ。dd>
5.They arranged to wire the money from the United States.