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
A covert listening device worn as a wire under a person's clothes

Wire (band), British post-punk group (1976–present)
Wire (2004 album), album by Third Day
Wire (2015 album), album by Wire
"Wire" (song), 1984 song by U2
"Wires" (song), 2004 song by Athlete
"The Wire" (David Dallas song), featuring Ruby Frost, 2013
"The Wire" (Haim song), 2013
Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

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

The Wire, a 2002–2008 HBO police drama TV series
- "The Wire" (episode), the sixth episode of this 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

NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education 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

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"

Wire Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Wide Field Infrared Explorer, a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky
The Wire of Death, sometimes simply called the Wire. A lethal electric fence on the Dutch-Belgian border during World War I.
Wide-Coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System, a digital transmission mode used in Yaesu amateur radio equipment
Wire (software), a communications network for messaging, voice calling, sharing pictures, music and video

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