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Vired vs Wired - What's the difference?

vired | wired |

As verbs the difference between vired and wired

is that vired is past tense of vire while wired is past tense of wire.

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.

vired

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vire)

    • vire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.
    • (Gower)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
  • * 1996 , Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education :
    • For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.
  • * 2005 , House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report :
    • Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.
  • * 2012 , David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services :
    • Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!
    (Webster 1913) ----

    wired

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
    • After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
  • (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
    • I was dealt three of a kind, wired .
  • (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)
    • In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
  • * 2004 , Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, page 44)
    • 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) corded

    Antonyms

    * wireless

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wire)

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