Weird vs. Wired

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Example: ‘There was a weird light shining above the hill.’;

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

Example: ‘There are lots of weird people in this place.’;

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

Example: ‘It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.’;

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

A prediction.

A spell or charm.

That which comes to pass; a fact.

The Fates (personified).

(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.

A spell or charm.

Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.

Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.

Example: ‘Myself too had weird seizures.’; ‘Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.’; ‘The weird sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land.’;

To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

Example: ‘an eldritch screech’; ‘the three weird sisters’; ‘stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures’; ‘an unearthly light’; ‘he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din’;

strikingly odd or unusual;

Example: ‘some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow’;

Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

Example: ‘After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.’;

(zoology) Having wiry feathers.

(poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.

(poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

Example: ‘I was dealt three of a kind, wired.’;

Connected to the Internet; online.

simple past tense and past participle of wire

equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service;

Example: ‘a well-wired house’;

tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline;

Example: ‘we were really pumped up for the race’; ‘he was so pumped he couldn't sleep’;

tied or bound with wire;

Example: ‘wired bundles of newspapers’;