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Wierd vs Wired - What's the difference?

wierd | wired |

As adjectives the difference between wierd and wired

is that wierd is misspelling of weird while wired is equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

As a verb wired is

past tense of wire.

wierd

English

Adjective

(head)
  • * 1929 December, , Volume 19, Number 12, Boy Scouts of America, page 61:
    • The effect is very wierd and startling, especially when viewed after dark.
  • * 2002 , Edward F. Little, A Future Metaphysics (page 72)
    • With all of these things you can do some pretty wierd things to your original triangle.
  • * 2005 , John K. Gilbert, Constructing worlds through science education (page 63)
    • The components of imagined worlds, no matter how wierd and unfamiliar these may be, are often based on familiar components...
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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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