# 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Music
#### Magazines

* 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

### Television
#### 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