The race went down to the wire.
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Wire
//ˈwaɪɚ//
Synonyms for "wire" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
2 entriescapable of
4 entriesderived
205 entriesShowing 16 of 205 words.
has context
6 entriesis a
9 entriesmanner of
3 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
77 entriesShowing 16 of 77 words.
troponym
1 entriesused for
4 entriesTranslations
228 translations across 95 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- draad noun (thin thread of metal)
- draadheining noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
Albanian
1 entries- tel noun (thin thread of metal)
Arabic
3 entries- سِلِك noun (thin thread of metal)
- سِلْك noun (thin thread of metal)
- سِلْك noun (thin thread of metal)
Armenian
1 entries- մետաղալար noun (thin thread of metal)
Assamese
1 entries- তাৰ noun (thin thread of metal)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- məftil noun (thin thread of metal)
- məftil noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- sim noun (thin thread of metal)
- tel noun (thin thread of metal)
Bashkir
1 entries- тимерсыбыҡ noun (thin thread of metal)
Basque
1 entries- hari noun (thin thread of metal)
Belarusian
2 entries- дрот noun (thin thread of metal)
- про́вад noun (thin thread of metal)
Bengali
1 entries- তার noun (thin thread of metal)
Bulgarian
4 entries- жи́ца noun (thin thread of metal)
- жи́ца noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- те́лена огра́да noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
- тел noun (thin thread of metal)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝိုင်ယာကြိုး noun (thin thread of metal)
Catalan
3 entries- cable noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- fil d'aram noun (thin thread of metal)
- filferro noun (thin thread of metal)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- تێل noun (thin thread of metal)
Central Melanau
2 entries- waya noun (thin thread of metal)
- waya noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Chamicuro
1 entries- alampre noun (thin thread of metal)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏯᏅᎯ noun (thin thread of metal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 線 /线 noun (thin thread of metal)
- 鐵絲 /铁丝 noun (thin thread of metal)
- 電線 /电线 noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Czech
1 entries- drát noun (thin thread of metal)
Danish
1 entries- tråd noun (thin thread of metal)
Dutch
4 entries- ader noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- draad noun (thin thread of metal)
- elektriciteitsdraad noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- snoer noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Esperanto
1 entries- drato noun (thin thread of metal)
Estonian
1 entries- traat noun (thin thread of metal)
Finnish
4 entries- johdin noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- lanka noun (thin thread of metal)
- maalinauha noun (sports: finish line of a racetrack)
- metallilanka noun (thin thread of metal)
French
1 entries- fil noun (thin thread of metal)
Galician
1 entries- arame noun (thin thread of metal)
Georgian
2 entries- მავთული noun (thin thread of metal)
- სადენი noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
German
4 entries- Ader noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- Draht noun (thin thread of metal)
- Draht noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- Wanze noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
Greek
4 entries- καλώδιο noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- κοριός noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
- συρματόπλεγμα noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
- σύρμα noun (thin thread of metal)
Greenlandic
1 entries- nimissiaq noun (thin thread of metal)
Hebrew
1 entries- חוּט noun (thin thread of metal)
Hindi
1 entries- तार noun (thin thread of metal)
Hungarian
3 entries- drót noun (thin thread of metal)
- huzal noun (thin thread of metal)
- bedrótoz verb (slang: to install eavesdropping equipment)
Icelandic
1 entries- vír noun (thin thread of metal)
Ilocano
1 entries- barot noun (thin thread of metal)
Indonesian
1 entries- kawat noun (thin thread of metal)
Ingrian
1 entries- proovolka noun (thin thread of metal)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- سیم noun (thin thread of metal)
Italian
4 entries- arrivo noun (sports: finish line of a racetrack)
- cavo noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- cavo elettrico noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- cimice noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
Japanese
4 entries- ワイヤー noun (thin thread of metal)
- 線 noun (thin thread of metal)
- 針金 noun (thin thread of metal)
- 電線 noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Javanese
1 entries- kawat noun (thin thread of metal)
Kazakh
1 entries- сым noun (thin thread of metal)
Khmer
3 entries- ខ្សែភ្លើង noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- លួស noun (thin thread of metal)
- លួសបន្លា noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
Kildin Sami
2 entries- проавлогк noun (thin thread of metal)
- страӈӈ noun (thin thread of metal)
Korean
3 entries- 전선 noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- 철사 noun (thin thread of metal)
- 철조망 noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сым noun (thin thread of metal)
Lao
2 entries- ລວດ noun (thin thread of metal)
- ສາຍ noun (thin thread of metal)
Latvian
2 entries- stieple noun (thin thread of metal)
- stieple noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Lithuanian
1 entries- viela noun (thin thread of metal)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Drot noun (thin thread of metal)
Macedonian
3 entries- бодликава жица noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
- жица noun (thin thread of metal)
- жица noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Malay
4 entries- dawai noun (thin thread of metal)
- kawat noun (thin thread of metal)
- wayar noun (thin thread of metal)
- wayar noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Maranao
1 entries- kawat noun (thin thread of metal)
Mongolian
1 entries- төмөр утас noun (thin thread of metal)
Māori
1 entries- waea noun (thin thread of metal)
Navajo
1 entries- bééshtsʼósí noun (thin thread of metal)
Nepali
1 entries- तार noun (thin thread of metal)
Norwegian
1 entries- overføre verb (informal: to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ledning noun (thin thread of metal)
- tråd noun (thin thread of metal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- leidning noun (thin thread of metal)
- tråd noun (thin thread of metal)
Old Javanese
1 entries- kawat noun (thin thread of metal)
Ossetian
1 entries- тел noun (thin thread of metal)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سیم noun (thin thread of metal)
Pashto
1 entries- تار noun (thin thread of metal)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Drot noun (thin thread of metal)
Polish
4 entries- drut noun (thin thread of metal)
- kabel noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- kabel noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
- pluskwa noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
Portuguese
4 entries- arame noun (thin thread of metal)
- escuta noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
- fio noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- grampo noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
Romanian
3 entries- fir noun (thin thread of metal)
- fir noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- sârmă noun (thin thread of metal)
Russian
4 entries- жучо́к noun (slang: hidden listening device on the person)
- про́вод noun (thin thread of metal)
- про́вод noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- про́волока noun (thin thread of metal)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- uèir noun (thin thread of metal)
- uèir noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- žȉca noun (thin thread of metal)
- žȉca noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- жи̏ца noun (thin thread of metal)
- жи̏ца noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ལྕགས་སྐུད noun (thin thread of metal)
Slovak
1 entries- drôt noun (thin thread of metal)
Slovene
2 entries- žica noun (thin thread of metal)
- žica noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Southern Altai
2 entries- эмик noun (thin thread of metal)
- эмик noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Spanish
4 entries- alambre noun (thin thread of metal)
- arambre noun (thin thread of metal)
- cable noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- hilo noun (thin thread of metal)
Swahili
4 entries- waya noun (thin thread of metal)
- waya noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- waya noun (fence made of usually barbed wire)
- waya noun (sports: finish line of a racetrack)
Swedish
4 entries- elkabel noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- kabel noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- ledning noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- målsnöre noun (sports: finish line of a racetrack)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠔꠣꠞ noun (thin thread of metal)
Tagalog
1 entries- alambre noun (thin thread of metal)
Tahitian
1 entries- niuniu noun (thin thread of metal)
Tajik
1 entries- сим noun (thin thread of metal)
Thai
4 entries- ลวด noun (thin thread of metal)
- สาย noun (thin thread of metal)
- สายไฟ noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
- สายไฟฟ้า noun (metal conductor that carries electricity)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལྕགས་སྐུད noun (thin thread of metal)
Turkish
2 entries- tel noun (thin thread of metal)
- para havale etmek verb (informal: to send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system)
Turkmen
1 entries- sim noun (thin thread of metal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дріт noun (thin thread of metal)
- про́від noun (thin thread of metal)
Urdu
1 entries- تار noun (thin thread of metal)
Uyghur
1 entries- سىم noun (thin thread of metal)
Uzbek
1 entries- sim noun (thin thread of metal)
Vietnamese
2 entries- dây noun (thin thread of metal)
- dây thép noun (thin thread of metal)
Welsh
2 entries- gwifren noun (thin thread of metal)
- weiren noun (thin thread of metal)
Western Apache
1 entries- bitsʼǫǫs noun (thin thread of metal)
Yiddish
1 entries- דראָט noun (thin thread of metal)
Zazaki
1 entries- tel noun (thin thread of metal)
Sample sentences
60 total sentences available.
If you touch that wire, you will receive a shock.
Source: tatoeba (44823)
This cage is made of wire.
Source: tatoeba (61243)
I just made it under the wire.
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