Wised vs Wired - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between wised and wired

is that wised is past tense of wise while wired is past tense of wire.

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.

wised

English

Verb

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(wise)

Anagrams

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wise

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wis, wys, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch wijs, German weise, Swedish vis. Compare wit.

Adjective

(er)

Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.

They were considered the wise old men of the administration.

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise , to seem foolish" - Aeschylus

(colloquial) Disrespectful.

Don't get wise with me!

Usage notes

* Objects: person, decision, advice, counsel, saying, etc.

Antonyms

* unwise * foolish

Derived terms

* crack wise * wisdom * wiseacre * wise apple * wiseass * wisecrack * wise guy * wise-hearted * wiseling * wiselike * wiseness * wizen * wizard * word to the wise

Verb

(wis)

To become wise.

(ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.

Mo wised him up about his situation.

''After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Way, manner, method.

* 1850 , The Burden of Nineveh , lines 2-5

... the prize

Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —

Her Art for ever in fresh wise

From hour to hour rejoicing me.

* 1866 , , A Ballad of Life , lines 28-30

A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;

The token of him being upon this wise

Made for a sign of Lust.

* 1926 , J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog , page 308

And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.

Derived terms

* -wise

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Verb

(dialectal) to instruct

(dialectal) to advise; induce

(dialectal) to show the way, guide

(dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot

(dialectal) to cause to turn

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

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)