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Waired vs Wired - What's the difference?

waired | wired |

As verbs the difference between waired and wired

is that waired is past tense of wair 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.

waired

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wair)

    • wair

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
  • * 1826 , Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session , Volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569,
    • .
  • * 1831 [1566], , page 94,
    • We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.
  • * 1841 , William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland , 1424—1707, page 243,
    • Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (were)
  • * 1897 , , 2007, page 18,
    • We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair' on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who ' wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.

    References

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    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)

    • Anagrams

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