Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hard-wire

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English

Syllables: hard-wire
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.

verb

To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.

verb

To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.

Example Sentences

""And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation."

Inflected Forms

hard-wires (present, singular) hard-wiring (participle, present) hard-wired (participle, past) hard-wired (past)

Frequently Paired Words

hardwired

Questions

What does hard-wire mean?: To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.

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