Wired vs Hired - What's the difference?
wired | hired |
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
(poker slang) A pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down
(poker slang) three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud
(informal, of people or communities) connected to the Internet; online
* 2002 , Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state (page 247)
* 2004 , Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, page 44)
(wire)
(hire)
Payment for the temporary use of something.
(obsolete) Reward, payment.
* Bible, Luke x. 7
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
(label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
* , chapter=16
, title= (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
(label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
(label) To accomplish by paying for services.
(label) To accept employment.
As verbs the difference between wired and hired
is that wired is (wire) while hired is (hire).As an adjective wired
is equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.wired
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired .
- In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
- Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired . Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS
Synonyms
* (equipped with a connection wire) cordedAntonyms
* wirelessReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*hired
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----hire
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sign offered pedalos on hire .
- The labourer is worthy of his hire .
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
- We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .
Synonyms
* (state of being hired) employment, employVerb
(hir)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}