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Wired vs Sired - What's the difference?

wired | sired |

As verbs the difference between wired and sired

is that wired is past tense of wire while sired is past tense of sire.

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)
  • 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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    sired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sire)

    • Anagrams

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    sire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
  • A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
  • (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
  • (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • * Shelley
    • [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

    Verb

    (sir)
  • Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
    • In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

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