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noun. A slender, pointed implement used for sewing or surgical suturing, made usually of polished steel and having an eye at one end through which a length of thread is passed and held.

noun. Any of various similar implements, such as a fine sharp-pointed instrument used in acupuncture or a pointed shaft used in knitting, crocheting, or lace making.

noun. A sharp-pointed instrument used in engraving.

noun. A slender piece of jewel or steel used to transmit vibrations from the grooves of a phonograph record.

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noun. A slender pointer or indicator on a dial, scale, or similar part of a mechanical device.

noun. A magnetic needle.

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noun. A hypodermic needle.

noun. A hypodermic injection; a shot.

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noun. A narrow stiff leaf, as of a pine or fir.

noun. A fine, sharp projection, as a spine of a sea urchin or a crystal.

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noun. A tall narrow rock formation.

noun. An obelisk.

noun. A goading, provoking, or teasing remark or act.

intransitive verb. To prick, pierce, or stitch with a needle.

intransitive verb. To goad, provoke, or tease.

intransitive verb. To sew or do similar work with a needle.

To form into crystals in the shape of needles.

To perform or work with a needle.

To shoot in crystallization into the form of needles.

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noun. plural In mining: Beams laid across a mine shaft to support a cage.

noun. Buntons.

noun. A small pointed instrument, straight or curved, for carrying a thread through a woven fabric, paper, leather, felt, or other material.

noun. In a wider sense, any slender pointed instrument shaped like a needle or used in a similar way: as, a knitting-, crochet-, or engraving- needle; a surgeons' needle.

noun. Anything resembling a needle in shape.

noun. Specifically— A small piece of steel pointed at both ends, and balanced centrally on a pivot, such as is used in the magnetic compass, in which it points to the magnetic poles, and in the needle-telegraph, in which its deflections, produced by electric currents, are used to give indications. See compass, magnet, dipping-needle, galvanometer, and needle-telegraph.

noun. A thin rod, usually made of copper, which is inserted in a drill-hole while this is being charged with powder. When the rod is withdrawn, it leaves a space in which can be inserted the tube of rush or grass, or the fuse, by which the charge is ignited. Also called a blasting-needle, or a nail

noun. In w eaving, a horizontal piece of wire with an eye to receive the lifting-wire in a Jacquard loom.

noun. A sharp pinnacle of rock; a detached pointed rock

noun. In chem. and mineralogy, a crystal shaped like a needle; an aciform crystal.

noun. In zool, a slender, sharp spicule; an aciculum.

noun. In bot, a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer: as, a pine -needle.

noun. In a central-fire hammerlesa gun of the variety called needle-gun, a pointed, slender, longitudinally sliding bolt or wire which, being driven forcibly forward by the spring-mechanism of the lock when the gun is tired, strikes with its front end against a fulminate or fulminating compound attached to the interior of the cartridge. The famous Prussian needle-gun is believed to be the first gun constructed to be fired on this principle. See cut under needle-gun.

noun. In architecture, a piece of timber laid horizontally and supported on props or shores under a wall or building, etc., which it serves to sustain temporarily while the foundation or the part beneath is being altered, repaired, or underpinned.

noun. A beam carrying a pulley at the end projecting from a building. The fall is worked by a crab inside the building.

intransitive verb. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

transitive verb. To form in the shape of a needle.

transitive verb. To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.

transitive verb. To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.

noun. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

noun. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.

noun. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

noun. One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

noun. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

noun. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.

"The term 'needle in a haystack' certainly seems like an appropriate comparison."

acerate  active needle  adam's needle and thread  cannulated needle  crazy needle  

beset  chevvy  chevy  chivvy  chivy  

Beadle  beadle  tweedle  

arrow  ball  bead  bolt  brush  

Gramophone  Gyrosin compass  PA  PA system  RDF  

magnetic  pinus  

needled  needles  needless  needling