Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity, when it is usually insulated with a rubber or plastic cladding, The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show, The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine, intransitive verb_ Slang To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example), To send a telegram to (someone), Computers To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming