wiredとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /waɪəd/
• (General American) IPA: /waɪɹd/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)d

形容詞

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
4. (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

   After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

   • 1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:

     I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired

   • 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:

     I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired

   • 2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:

     Too wired to die, too under fire to think

5. (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
6. (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
   • 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

     You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.

7. (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

   Synonym: back to back

8. (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

9. (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
   • 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:

     In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

   • 2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, page 44:

     Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS […]

同意語

• (equipped with a connection wire): corded

反意語

• wireless

派生語

動詞

wired

1. simple past and past participle of wire

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

アナグラム

• Dwire, WEIRD, weird, weïrd, wider, wierd, wride, wried