I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barbed wire
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a high barbed wire fence
chicken wire
high wire
live wire
loop of wire/rope/string etc
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A loop of wire held the gate shut.
razor wire
wire cutters
wire netting
wire wool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
barbed
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I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence.
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Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid output is laced with lethal barbed wire .
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If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she'd believe him.
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire .
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Creepers grew on the walls; deciduous, they stretched out their bare stems in a complicated network like barbed wire .
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You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
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The courthouse itself was protected by barbed wire and ringed with police.
copper
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Strands of copper wire , source identified.
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The one-tenth-inch wide strand had a nylon fiber core called Nomex, surrounded by the strands of copper wire .
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To obtain the tensions, we resort to the copper wire again and make up rectangular loops which are sealed by soldering.
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Airey houses, for example, were built with concrete planks fixed with copper wire to vertical reinforced concrete columns.
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Soil deformation during a quake could bend pipelines as though they were strands of copper wire .
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This should be compared with systems in which the signal is sent direct to the receiver for example, along a copper wire .
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The channel of communication is the copper wire which carries the electrical signals and runs to the distant end.
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If you can wear an earthed wrist strap or, at least, a piece of copper wire clipped to the ground plane.
electrical
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An electrical wire is inserted into the heart, which is then stimulated electronically and the reaction is studied.
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Automobile manufacturing is one of the top sources of demand for copper, after construction and electrical wire .
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It is probable that one of the electrical wires had had its insulation damaged.
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The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
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Always check for electrical wires and eater pipes with a pipe and cable detector before drilling walls, floors and ceilings.
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They live under high-voltage electrical wire .
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Tom left them, twined about with electrical wires , to set up their speakers and woofers and tweeters.
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Associates was looking for ways to expand its business of making a Teflon-coated electrical wire .
fine
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They consist of a copper core, which carries the signal, surrounded by a braided mesh of fine copper wire .
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Now suppose that two fine metal wires run along the sides of the skyhook cable.
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Beneath this lies the most splendid embalmed St Justin in his contemporary costume with fine wire work and embroidery.
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Microelectrodes are fine wires about the thickness of a hair.
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It works best with a large fine wire hook.
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Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity.
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Imagine a fine wire which is too far away and too thin to see by any ordinary means.
high
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It was designed as a safety net, but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers.
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Oliver tied the team to a stump and led her across as if it were as dangerous as a high wire .
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The style was different to ours: they'd used mild steel netting instead of high-tensile wires .
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Like Karl Wallenda in his prime, they walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.
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Skinny tightrope walkers, feet weighted with fishing sinkers, traversed the high wire .
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This fence consists of ten live high-tensile wires and four strands of barb, so the posts are quite long.
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Below Manescu saw a complex of concrete buildings and a circular tower block surrounded by a high wire fence.
hot
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The instruments work using a hot wire internally.
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He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas, worked in a steel mill handling hot wire , stole hubcaps.
live
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She's a real live wire . 2.
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Estes' forehead brushed the live wire .
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This college has come to life and advanced considerably under the direction of its very live wire Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens.
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Trading standards officers say the hot brush styler, made in the Far East has faulty insulation which has exposed live wires .
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The whole machine was acting like a live electric wire .
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It overheated and melted the plastic cover. Live wires were exposed.
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Yet a kind of current emanated from her, she was like a live wire .
overhead
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Blue skies are criss-crossed with a network of overhead wires .
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And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy.
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Doing the overhead wires and lines.
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They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham.
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This means that there is always a third rail or an overhead wire carrying an enormously high electric current.
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They picked up power from a spider's web of unsightly overhead wires .
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If electric, the tramway was to be worked by overhead wire or slot conduit systems.
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The Unimog used for inspecting the overhead wire , can travel on road or rails.
thin
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Yes, I knelt in fear, and my skin lived on thin wire , this side of a profound shudder.
■ NOUN
basket
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Ivy, candles and fruit arranged in a wire basket make a sumptuous centrepiece.
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Gabians are large wire baskets filled with rocks and linked together.
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In practice, spray containers are laid in a wire basket inside a sealed container.
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He held a wire basket with a modest stack of provisions.
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He had a wire basket in his left hand, in which he had placed two tins of pineapple cubes.
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She took the loaded wire basket to the outlet, paid, filled her carrier bags, and went homewards by Underground.
brush
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If the flashing looks sound but is obviously porous, clean the surface thoroughly with a wire brush .
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Keep a wire brush handy for this purpose and rub down the grill after finishing your cooking.
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Action with a scraper and wire brush , using manual labour, would give the desired result.
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Lightly sand scratches and chips with fine wet-and-dry paper, and remove all traces of rust with small wire brush .
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We would imagine that the wire brush is very handy for cleaning up old iron and steel.
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The inside of the fitting should be brushed out with a special wire brush and rubbed with wire wool.
chicken
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After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame, covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.
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So this year, to be on the safe side, she had ordered a roll of chicken wire and metal stakes.
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Already he's spent more than £100 on chicken wire and spent hours collecting up the various fillings.
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Staplegun chicken wire to the walls, slap stucco on top.
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Derek and I built the aviary between us out of ordinary three by three timber and chicken wire .
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The church was built of brick and chicken wire .
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To reduce slippage, tack coarse-gauge chicken wire flush to the deck.
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They would search the woods behind the house, and Nockerd would tack the chicken wire tighter around the cage.
cutter
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Eric Dodd set down his wire cutters and leather gloves.
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The other had contained a jemmy, cans of spray paint, wire cutters , a brace and bit, and shears.
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Police had to use wire cutters to move on the protestors.
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He says some one with a screwdriver or wire cutters could take the picture and walk out of the door.
fence
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I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence .
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Caught in a barbed wire fence .
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Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence .
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And when that wire fence tears through those little babies fall through and die.
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On either side of the well-guarded checkpoint stretched wire fences , barbed-wire entanglements and minefields.
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The aroma of fish and bread will drift over the hungry children standing behind the barbed wire fence , watching, waiting.
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The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.
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He was doing wheelies on a steep bank with a wire fence at the top.
fraud
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Gould was eventually caught last year, and pleaded guilty to 51 counts of racketeering, wire fraud , and money laundering.
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Caserta, 56, pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and conspiracy.
loop
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The paper support for this is a flimsy piece of plastic, and a wire loop .
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Pick up the web on this card, as with the wire loop .
mesh
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These cars had Wilson &038; Bennett wire mesh lifeguards.
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There was an iron bed, a small table and chair, a double-pane window reinforced with wire mesh .
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I was standing with my back to the aviary, my jacket almost touching the wire mesh , still puzzled.
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Strain through a wire mesh sieve.
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There was a wire mesh roof over it lower than in the Cages and some fish and meat.
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The screens were of ordinary wire mesh .
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This time it was a piece of wire mesh on a metal rod.
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There was no stairhead lamp and the wire mesh screens were of the Brush standard design.
netting
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Joseph's father was reinforcing the posts that held up the wire netting around the tennis court.
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Openings covered with wire netting revealed a shadowy abyss.
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As soon as they are replaced they are broken again and the church authorities are considering wire netting as a protection.
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It blows debris into the net and it tightens the net rather like wire netting and decreases its catching power.
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Wire netting Crumple up wire netting into a ball and push into a container.
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You can also use a circle of wire netting , shaped like a mound, to cover the top of the container.
news
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He stays up until the early hours devouring the news wires .
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Stock and bond markets, already weak, fell further after the pessimistic comments were carried on news wires .
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When those remarks went out over the news wires , sales shot up further.
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The government does not own or substantially regulate newspapers, radio or television stations, or news wire services.
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On January 30, 1993, news of an unusual incident crossed the Associated Press news wire .
rack
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove to a wire rack .
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Run a blunt knife around the inside edge of the tin and turn out the cake on to a wire rack to cool.
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Remove from baking sheet to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes.
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Turn out on to wire rack . 3.
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Remove from baking sheet and let cool completely on wire rack .
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Leave the florentines on a wire rack to set.
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Place ginger on a wire rack to dry for at least an hour.
razor
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The following day 20 protesters climbed back over the razor wire .
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The inmates are held in a compound encircled by razor wire .
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The high grey wall has a lip trimmed with razor wire .
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The gear is protected by a cyclone fence topped with razor wire .
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There were fences with spirals of razor wire on top.
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They gazed into my torch beam like cons caught in razor wire .
service
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I'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers.
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Her sketches are familiar to New Yorkers and have appeared on networks, newspapers and the wire services .
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The wire services demanded language stripped of the local, the regional, and the colloquial....
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This story was supplemented by wire service material.
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The government does not own or substantially regulate newspapers, radio or television stations, or news wire services .
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New York Times, wire services , I could have called them but I called you.
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The wire services are now reporting the fire, and the writers and editors are reading the copy.
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Chronicle wire services contributed to this report.
telegraph
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Glancing up, I saw a beautiful yellow bird perched on a telegraph wire , looking like a prize long-tailed canary.
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Immediately afterwards, she listens enraptured to the almost musical sound of the telegraph wires that only she is capable of hearing.
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The rain is sheeting across the horizon like ripped dustbin liners caught on a telegraph wire .
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Popularization of news was accelerated in the 1 840s with the introduction of telegraph wire services.
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And there was the railway, with its shining lines, telegraph wires and posts, and signals.
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And soon the word was crackling over the telegraph wires to all parts of the North.
telephone
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Still embedded high on a rock is a tangle of telephone wires and a ceramic insulator.
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In summer, we sit on the porch Like birds on a telephone wire .
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The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker.
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He said he could feel the vibrations of my enthusiasm over the telephone wires .
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The telephone wires have been cut, the sockets torn from the wall.
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Latency is friction in telephone wires that can cause delays in the response time of action gaming.
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A police station adjacent to the jail was simultaneously attacked by the rebels, its occupants disarmed and its telephone wires severed.
wool
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They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted.
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She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin, and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally.
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The more stubborn food particles can be removed by gentle scrubbing with wire wool .
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Before you replace it, clean the two pipe ends thoroughly with wire wool , then brush on flux.
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She chose the cooker and began to scrape its insides with wire wool .
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The inside of the fitting should be brushed out with a special wire brush and rubbed with wire wool .
■ VERB
attach
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Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag.
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In the 1980s mechanical hearts were attached by wires and tubes to machinery outside the body.
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An oval drill head was attached to a flexible wire and threaded into a blood vessel in his leg.
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A curl of green pressed powder was burning on the table, attached to a wire stand.
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The Thing didn't have to be attached to any wires .
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The 1M potentiometer should be prepared by attaching short wires to the centre and one of its outer terminals.
connect
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Prepare the solenoid valve connecting wire .
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Born in late August, some 15 weeks premature, he spent his 10-week life connected to tubes and wires .
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Remove the voltage regulator box and connect the large wires A, A1 and D together.
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Because all controls and control units are connected by flexible wires , controls can be grouped conveniently around the handles.
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Chakras connected by copper wire leading to the head of the idol.
cut
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Closer examination showed these to have been cut , about 12 wires in all.
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One of the commonest mistakes is attempting to cut with too much wire inside the papilla, partly for fear of displacing the wire.
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The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker.
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Anyone who cuts the wire with the necessary intent and knowledge would be guilty of murder.
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The strength in his own sinews cuts the wire into the flesh round his mouth.
run
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This leaves long parallel striations running along the wire .
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The two doctors bared its chest and ran wires from the battery to the bone above the heart.
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Then he ran off with the wire , not out of the gate, but round to the front of the house.
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Oswald ran past the chicken wire , turned into the cell block, stopped at the white line.
twist
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John twisted soft iron wire around some thick dowelling, whittled to a taper, to make candleholders.
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The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
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He'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox.
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Why not make the rope out of twisted wire ?
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The muscles in her neck felt as hard and twisted as wire rope.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high-tension wires/cables etc
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Take the walk along the Humber Bridge with the wind nagging the high-tension cables.
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The Kinner field almost qualified; it had two sets of high-tension wires on its eastern perimeter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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wire reports
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The cable is made of many twisted strands of wire .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A low-powered electric bulb hung starkly from a wire overhead.
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But all these things somehow had their centre inside the wire .
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Pumps go with pipes, furnaces go with air-conditioners, switches go with wires.
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So this year, to be on the safe side, she had ordered a roll of chicken wire and metal stakes.
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When the wires fell, they ignited the gas leaking from the main.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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The creatures are wired together in various degrees of connectance by food webs and by smells and vision.
up
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Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences, electricians wired up searchlights, carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms.
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These were people who were wired up wrong.
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Through the gap in the fence, I suppose, the place I didn't wire up .
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One Systern now being scrutinized is absolutely essential for the proper wiring up of neurons in the brain of the developing fetus.
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Lighting circuits are wired up in one of two ways.
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After wiring up the Xmas tree lights and programming the computer, even managed the washing up!
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Power circuits on a modern installation are also wired up in one of two ways, as ring or radical circuits.
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Mr Whittaker will wire up your place to one of his alarms.
■ NOUN
network
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In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks , marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bud wired the CD player up to the cigarette lighter in his car.
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Could you wire me $50?
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The electrician is coming to wire the house tomorrow.
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Tracy had to have her jaw wired shut.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Satellite customers who are wired for cable sometimes keep the service to get local channels.
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Sooner or later most workers will be wired, and another moderator of inflation will then have been exhausted also.
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The businessman was then wired with a listening device and given $ 30, 000 to offer Mr Tucker.
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They are very data conscious now and more wired into productivity, quality, the importance of training, and customer service.
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This latter method is often a good way of wiring outside lights.
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We strap on the goggles and headphones which are wired up to what looks like a drum machine.