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 , especiallyopenwork , formed ofwires .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mesh netting made of wires
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's got a lot of CGI and wirework, which is so passé.
SCI FI Wire 2009
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Most jewelry makers start with bead stringing and then continue to work through various types of jewelry making such as wirework or clay.
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Adrian Rayment, along with his father Ron, produce handcrafted metal wirework furniture at their studio in the seaside town of Ramsgate, England.
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One is a straight-up fantasy film with exaggerated fighting, depicted through camera tricks and obvious wirework.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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