Alicorn comments on Sequence Exercise: "Extensions and Intensions" from "A Human's Guide to Words" - Less Wrong Discussion
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A piece of wire shorter than it was wide would just be a very small disk. Imagine cutting a wire into little slices.
Oh, I had assumed that the piece of wire was supposed to be performing some wiry function, since I would describe this case as "some wire" but not as "a wire".