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CABLES |
Wires |
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FILAMENTS |
Thin wires |
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CABLING |
Wires collectively |
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TIGHTROPES |
Circus high wires |
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CAGES |
Structures of bars or wires |
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CONDUIT |
Duct for protecting electrical wires |
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WIREWORK |
Work, especially openwork, formed of wires. |
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WIRE |
To snare by means of a wire or wires. |
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ESCAPE |
Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires,
caused by defective insulation. |
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HAMMER |
The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to
produce the tones. |
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WHIRTLE |
A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are
drawn to form them. |
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DUCTILITY |
The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into
wires or filaments. |
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STRAND |
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc.,
of which a rope is composed. |
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RETICULE |
A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope
or other instrument; a reticle. |
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WIRE-PULLER |
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one
who operates by secret means; an intriguer. |
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WIRE-PULLING |
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence,
secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue. |
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DULCIMER |
An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are
beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer. |
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NETTING |
A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads,
wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between. |
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LINE |
The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or
the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. |
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GRIFF |
An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires
which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. |
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SUBWAY |
An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under
a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are
conducted. |
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MILEAGE |
Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of
lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company,
etc. |
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DRAWPLATE |
A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of
conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and
elongated. |
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TAP |
Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to
tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap
the treasury. |
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NETWORK |
A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other
at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus
leaving spaces or meshes between them. |