Wired vs Wiled - What's the difference?
wired | wiled |
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.
(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
(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)
* 2004 , Cincinnati Magazine (volume 38, number 3, December 2004, page 44)
(wire)
(wile)
(usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
* Milton
To entice or lure
, "to pass the time".
As verbs the difference between wired and wiled
is that wired is past tense of wire while wiled is past tense of wile.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)- After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
- I was dealt three of a kind, wired .
- In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
- 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) cordedAntonyms
* wirelessReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wiled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *wile
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- He was seduced by her wiles .
- to frustrate all our plots and wiles
Synonyms
* beguilement * allurementVerb
(wil)- Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
Usage notes
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away''. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hw?len — ''passing, transitory''. We also see it in the whilend — ''temporary, transitory''. But since ''wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.References
* Grammarist.comWhile away or wile away?* Common Errors in the English Language
Wile Away, While Away----