Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Computers) Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions.
- adjective Connected by a continuous electrical wire, rather than through a switch.
- adjective Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
hardwired .
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Examples
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Ms. Krementz, who is called "hard-wired to the bowels of hell" by Vonnegut's son, Mark, clearly did not cooperate with Mr. Shields.
NYT > Home Page By JANET MASLIN 2011
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Ms. Krementz, who is called "hard-wired to the bowels of hell" by Vonnegut's son, Mark, clearly did not cooperate with Mr. Shields.
NYT > Global Home By JANET MASLIN 2011
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Were the calls hard-wired, they'd have used their biological parents' calls.
Wired Top Stories Danielle Venton 2011
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Maybe they didn't learn from their parents, but had contact calls hard-wired from birth.
Wired Top Stories Danielle Venton 2011
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Millions of years of evolution have led to one over-arching truth -- that all life on earth is hard-wired to make tough decisions: with or without a lot of information.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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Teenagers are hard-wired to act like jackasses; in the scale of things, drinking is one of the less dangerous things they could be doing.
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Millions of years of evolution have led to one over-arching truth -- that all life on earth is hard-wired to make tough decisions: with or without a lot of information.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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Teenagers are hard-wired to act like jackasses; in the scale of things, drinking is one of the less dangerous things they could be doing.
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Millions of years of evolution have led to one over-arching truth -- that all life on earth is hard-wired to make tough decisions: with or without a lot of information.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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Millions of years of evolution have led to one over-arching truth -- that all life on earth is hard-wired to make tough decisions: with or without a lot of information.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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