A wire's a single, usually cylindrical, elongated string of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads and to carry electricity and telecommunications . Wire's commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Standard sizes are determined by various wire gauges. The term wire's also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands, as in 'multistranded wire', which's more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in electricity. History In antiqu… (More on Wire)