Wire (disambiguation)

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

Wire or wires may also refer to:

Abbreviations

 * Wire, a covert listening device worn as a wire under a person's clothes
 * Wire, an informal term for a telegraph, or the act of using a telegraph
 * Wire service, a journalism-jargon term 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

Types of wire

 * Barbed wire, steel fencing wire
 * Chicken wire, a mesh of wire
 * Concertina wire, a type of barbed wire or razor wire
 * Copper-clad aluminium wire, inner aluminium core and outer copper cladding
 * Electrical wiring, electrical installation of cabling and associated devices
 * Electroluminescent wire, thin copper wire coated in a phosphor
 * Glass-coated wire, fine glass-coated metal filaments
 * Magnet wire, copper or aluminium wire coated with a very thin layer of insulation
 * Nanowire, 1-D structures used in nanoelectronics and nanowire battery anodes
 * Razor wire
 * Wire rope, twisted strands of metal wire
 * Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

People

 * Wíres (footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian football player
 * Coy Wire (born 1978), American footballer, television anchor, and correspondent
 * Edith Wire (1899-1973), American composer, pianist, and writer; Lester's sister
 * Lester Wire (1887–1958), inventor, Edith's brother
 * Nicky Wire (born 1969), musician with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers
 * Kurt Wires (1919–1992), sprint canoer

Magazine

 * The Wire (magazine), cover title Wire, a British music magazine, founded in 1982

Groups

 * Wire (band), British punk/post-punk group (1976–present)

Albums

 * Wire (Third Day album), a 2004 album by Third Day
 * Wire (Wire album), a 2015 album by Wire
 * Wires (album), a 2001 album by Art of Fighting

Songs

 * "Wires" (song), by Athlete, 2004
 * "The Wire" (David Dallas song), featuring Ruby Frost, 2013
 * "The Wire" (Haim song), 2013
 * "Wire", a song by U2 from their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire
 * "Wire", by Third Day from the album Wire, 2004
 * "Wires", by Red Fang from the album Murder the Mountains, 2011
 * "Wires", by The Neighbourhood, 2012

News sites

 * The Wire (India), an Indian news website
 * The Wire, a defunct website published by The Atlantic

Radio

 * WIRE (FM), a radio station at 91.1 FM licensed to Lebanon, Indiana
 * The Wire (radio program), an Australian current-affairs program
 * The Wire, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication's student radio station
 * WXNT, an Indianapolis, Indiana (1430 AM) radio station, which held the WIRE call sign from 1935 to 1989

Channels

 * Wire TV, a 1992–1995 UK cable television channel
 * WIRE-CD, a television station (channel 33, virtual 33) licensed to serve Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Series

 * The Wire, a 2002–2008 HBO police drama TV series

Episodes

 * "The Wire" (Curb Your Enthusiasm), the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
 * "The Wire" (The Wire episode), the sixth episode of The Wire TV series
 * "The Wire" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Other uses in media

 * The Wire (JTF-GTMO), official weekly newspaper of Joint Task Force Guantanamo

Computing and telecommunications

 * Wire (software), an instant messaging application that supports voice and video calling
 * Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System (WIRES), a digital transmission mode used in Yaesu amateur radio equipment
 * Wire data, data on the wire in a communications system or protocol
 * Wire protocol, a method of transmitting data
 * Wire Swiss, a software company headquartered in Switzerland that is best known for its messaging application of the same name

Organizations

 * NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES), an animal welfare organisation in New South Wales, Australia
 * The WIRE project, a charitable organisation in England

Other uses

 * Warrington Wolves, a British rugby league team nicknamed The Wire
 * Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky
 * Winged Reusable Sounding rocket (WIRES), by Japan
 * Wire Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
 * Wire of Death or "the Wire", a lethal electric fence on the Dutch-Belgian border during World War I
 * "The wire", an elaborate obsolete con used in the film The Sting