Wire vs Circuit - What's the difference?
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(label) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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, title= A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
(label) A finish line of a racetrack.
(label) A telecommunication wire or cable
(label) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
(label) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
(label) A deadline or critical endpoint.
(label) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
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To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
(label) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
To make someone tense or psyched up.
(label) To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.
The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
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That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
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(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
(legal) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
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(Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
(obsolete) circumlocution
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(obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
(obsolete) To travel around.
As nouns the difference between wire and circuit
is that wire is metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die while circuit is the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.As verbs the difference between wire and circuit
is that wire is to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing while circuit is to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.wire
English
Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (thin thread of metal ): cable, steel wire, thread * (metal conductor that carries electricity ): conducting wire * (fencing made of usually barbed wire ): barbed wire * (informal: telegraph''): ''See telegraph * (informal: message transmitted by telegraph''): ''See telegram * (object used to keep the score in billiards) score stringDerived terms
* baling wire * barbed wire, barbed-wire * be on the wire * by wire * chicken wire * down to the wire * earthing wire * get one’s wires crossed]], [[have one's wires crossed, have one’s wires crossed * guy wire/guy-wire * haywire * live wire * piano wire * pull wires * pull the wires * razor wire * trawlwire * trip wire * under the wire * wire broadcasting * wire clippers * wire cutter * wire entanglement * wireform * wireless * wire recorder * wire rope * wire transfer * wiretap * wire wool * woven wire * wirySee also
* filament * hawser * cableVerb
(wir)- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
Synonyms
* (to equip for use with electricity ): electrify * (informal: to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system ): cable, telegraphAntonyms
* (to fasten with wire ): unwireTroponyms
* (to fasten with wire ): rewire * (to equip for use with electricity ): rewireDerived terms
* wire away * wire in * wire intoAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.