Wire (disambiguation)

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A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.

Wire, or Wires may also refer to:

Abbreviated

These terms are often shortened to simply wire or wired

• Wire service, a journalism jargon for news agency (a newswire or wire service)
• Wire tap, police jargon for covert telephone listening device
• Wire transfer, a method of sending money directly between banks
• Wire, informal term for a telegraph, or the act of using a telegraph
• Wire, a covert listening device

Entertainment

Music

• Wire (band), a British post-punk group (1976–present)
• Wire (album), a 2004 album by Christian rock band Third Day
• "Wire" (song), a 1984 song by U2 on the album The Unforgettable Fire
• "Wires" (song), a 2004 song by British rock band Athlete, from the album Tourist
• "The Wire" (song), a 2013 song by American rock band Haim, from the album Days Are Gone
• Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

Books, films, and magazines

• The Wire (magazine), a British music magazine, founded in 1982
• The Wire Re-up, 2009 books, Books about television
• The Wire (JTF-GTMO), official weekly newspaper of Joint Task Force Guantanamo

Media

• WIRE-CD, a television station at channel 40 licensed to Atlanta, Georgia
• WIRE (FM), a radio station at 91.1 FM licensed to Lebanon, Indiana
• The Wire, formerly The Atlantic Wire, Atlantic Media news aggregator site, see The Atlantic#The Wire
• the WIRE, University of Oklahoma's student radio station
• Wire TV, a 1992–1995 UK cable television channel

Television

• The Wire, a 2002–2008 HBO police drama TV series
  • "The Wire" (The Wire episode), the sixth episode of the TV series
• The Wire, a Doctor Who monster
• "The Wire" (Curb Your Enthusiasm), the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
• "The Wire" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Organizations

• NSW Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES), an animal welfare organisation in New South Wales, Australia
• Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System (WIRES)

• The WIRE project, a charitable organisation in England

Sports

• Wire, nickname of the Warrington Wolves, a British rugby league team
• Wíres José de Souza, a Brazilian football (soccer) player, often referred to as simply "Wires"

Other

• Wire Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky

interrogation of captives held in Guantanamo

• The Wire of Death, sometimes simply called the Wire. A lethal electric fence on the Dutch-Belgian border during World War I.

Types of wire

• Barbed tape or Razor wire
• Barbed wire
• Electrical wiring
• Monomolecular wire, a fictional type of wire used as a weapon to cut and sever objects
• Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

See also

• Wired (disambiguation)

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