Wired vs Weird - What's the difference?

Weird is a anagram of wired.

As adjectives the difference between wired and weird

is that wired is equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires while weird is connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

As verbs the difference between wired and weird

is that wired is past tense of wire while weird is to destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

As a noun weird is

fate; destiny; luck.

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

weird

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

* Longfellow

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

* Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1 Scene 5

Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!'

Having supernatural or preternatural power.

There was a weird light shining above the hill.

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

There are lots of weird people in this place.

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Usage notes

* Weird is one of the most noted exceptions to the (I before E except after C) spelling heuristic.

Synonyms

* (having supernatural or preternatural power) eerie, uncanny * (unusually strange in character or behaviour) fremd, oddball, peculiar, whacko * (deviating from the normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange * (of or pertaining to the Fates) fateful * See also

Derived terms

* weirdo * weirdly * weirdness * weird out

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

* 1912 , , trans. Arthur S. Way (Heinemenn 1946, p. 361)

In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison / Shall she steal forth never again.

A prediction.

(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.

(Sir Walter Scott)

That which comes to pass; a fact.

(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* * weirdless

Verb

(en verb)

To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

To warn solemnly; adjure.

See weird out .

That joke really weirded me out.

Anagrams

* * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----