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Definition of Hot-wire
1. Verb. Start (a car engine) without a key by bypassing the ignition interlock. "The woman who lost the car keys had to hot-wire her van"
Definition of Hot-wire
1. Verb. (slang) To start an automobile engine by circumventing the ignition key wiring ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot-wire
Literary usage of Hot-wire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"This gap can be reduced by the use of hot wire instruments. ... 1 was traced from
one of several three-volt hot wire FlG j instruments which have been in ..."
2. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"hot-wire Ammeters and Voltmeters.—The expansion of a wire, due to the heat produced
by the passage of current through it, is utilized in this type of meter ..."
3. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"Hot Wire Ammeters.—In dealing with electrical oscillations and high frequency
currents we require special forms of ammeter for making the required current ..."
4. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"Hot Wire Ammeters.—In dealing with electrical oscillations and high frequency
currents we require special forms of ammeter for making the required current ..."
5. A Course in Electrical Engineering by Chester Laurens Dawes (1922)
"hot-wire Instruments.—This type of instrument, described in Vol. I, Chap. VII,
page 136, reads equally well on both direct- and alternating-current circuits ..."
6. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"Hot-Wire Instruments. — A typical hot-wire instrument is shown in Fig. 43.
The current to be measured, or some part of it, passes through the leads U and ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"hot-wire Ammeter, the instrument. It is also necessary to notice that shunt principle
... In constructing a hot-wire instrument for the measurement of high ..."
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