Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something made of wire or wires.
  • noun Walking on a wire tightrope.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fabrics made of wire, such as wire gauze and wire cloth, or objects made of wire, such as bird-cages and sponge-racks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun mesh netting made of wires

Etymologies

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wire +‎ work

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Examples

  • It's got a lot of CGI and wirework, which is so passé.

    SCI FI Wire 2009

  • Most jewelry makers start with bead stringing and then continue to work through various types of jewelry making such as wirework or clay.

    About.com Jewelry Making 2010

  • Adrian Rayment, along with his father Ron, produce handcrafted metal wirework furniture at their studio in the seaside town of Ramsgate, England.

    The Hero Chair + Stool by Adrian Rayment 2009

  • One is a straight-up fantasy film with exaggerated fighting, depicted through camera tricks and obvious wirework.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • One is a straight-up fantasy film with exaggerated fighting, depicted through camera tricks and obvious wirework.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

  • Blackthorne also has given us interesting interpretations of the environs of Hell, Vatican satellites in outer space, martial arts wirework, not to mention goth strippers that morph into flesh-eating demons mid lap dance.

    Sinners and Saints (2004) 2010

  • And Jet is even better in the period epic tragedy THE WARLORDS, which has a little wirework but which is mostly realistic Kurosawa-style mass warfare, set during the Taiping Rebellion.

    Mini Reviews Too Late Walter Jon Williams 2010

  • This new version? storyboarded and choreographed to death, with crunchy effects on the soundtrack and elaborate wirework in the combat scenes? never approaches such heart-in-the-mouth levels of tension.

    The Karate Kid 2010

  • A lot of stunts and wirework was used for the film – were there any injuries on set?

    Twilight Lexicon » Fansites Chat With Catherine Hardwicke 2008

  • Bad acting (especially Klein, as noted), bad script (like the romantic subplot) poor effects and wirework, dull action, shoddy editing, appalling audio dubbing...

    This Week in DVD: Street Fighter, 12 Rounds, Entourage, Eastbound & Down, and More | /Film 2009

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