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 Definitions of needle  [ˈnid l]  

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Definition of 'needle' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) needle
a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usu. of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.

2.  needle
any of various related, usu. considerably larger, implements for making stitches, as in knitting or crocheting.

3.  needle
Med.

4.  needle
a slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing.

5.  needle
a hypodermic needle.

6.  needle
an injection of a drug or medicine; shot.

7.  needle
any of various objects resembling or suggesting a needle.

8.  needle
the tapered stylus at the end of a phonographic tonearm, used to transmit vibrations from a record groove to a transducer for conversion to audible signals.

9.  needle
a pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.

10.  needle
Bot. a needle-shaped leaf, as of a pine.

11.  needle
Zool. a slender, sharp spicule.

12.  needle
Chem., Mineral. a needlelike crystal.

13.  needle
a sharp-pointed mass or pinnacle of rock.

14.  needle
an obelisk or a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone.

15.  needle
Informal. teasing or harassing remarks.

16. (v.t.) needle
to sew or pierce with or as if with a needle.

17.  needle
Informal.

18.  needle
to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action:
We needled her into going with us.

19.  needle
to tease.

20. (v.i.) needle
to form needles in crystallization.

21.  needle
to work with a needle.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME nedle, OE næmacr;dl, c. OHG

Definition of 'needle' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) acerate leaf, needle
the leaf of a conifer

2. (noun) needle
a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

3. (noun) needle
a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

4. (verb) phonograph needle, needle
a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

5. (verb) needle, goad
goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
"He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"

6. (verb) needle
prick with a needle


Definition of 'needle' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) needle
a thin hollow piece of metal used for giving medicine through the skin
I'm afraid of needles.

2.  needle
a thin pointed piece of metal used for sewing or knitting
a needle and thread; knitting needles

3.  needle
a long thin object that points to a number, level, direction, etc. on a device
The speedometer needle pointed to 80 mph.

4.  needle
a long thin leaf of a pine tree
pine needles on the ground


Definition of 'needle' Webster Dictionary 

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

2. (noun) needle
see Magnetic needle, under Magnetic

3. (noun) needle
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

4. (noun) needle
one of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus

5. (noun) needle
any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc

6. (verb) needle
to form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals

7. (verb) needle
to form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles


Definition of 'needle' The Standard Electrical Dictionary 

1.  needle
(a) A term applied to a bar magnet poised horizontally upon a vertical point, or suspended in a horizontal position by a filament. Thus the magnet in a mariner's compass, which may be a substantial bar magnet, is called a magnetic needle.

(b) An indicator in general shape like the hand of a clock. (Sec Annunciator, Needle- Telegraph, Needle.)


Translation of 'needle' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a small, sharp piece of steel with a hole (called an eye) at one end for thread, used in sewing etc
a sewing needle.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: naald Arabic flag Arabic: إبْرَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: игла
Brazilian flag Brazilian: agulha Czech flag Czech: jehla German flag German: Nadel
Danish flag Danish: nål; -nål Greek flag Greek: βελόνα Spanish flag Spanish: aguja
Estonian flag Estonian: nõel Farsi flag Farsi: سوزن Finnish flag Finnish: neula
French flag French: aiguille Hebrew flag Hebrew: מַחַט Hindi flag Hindi: सुई
Croatian flag Croatian: igla zašivanje Hungarian flag Hungarian: (varró)tű Indonesian flag Indonesian: jarum
Icelandic flag Icelandic: saumnál Italian flag Italian: ago Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: 바늘 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: adata Latvian flag Latvian: adata
Malay flag Malay: jarum Dutch flag Dutch: naald Norwegian flag Norwegian: (sy)nål
Polish flag Polish: igła Persian flag Persian: سوزن Pashto flag Pashto: ستن
Portuguese flag Portuguese: agulha Russian flag Russian: иголка Slovak flag Slovak: ihla
Slovenian flag Slovenian: šivanka Serbian flag Serbian: igla Swedish flag Swedish: nål
Thai flag Thai: เข็ม Turkish flag Turkish: iğne Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: голка Urdu flag Urdu: سوئي Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: kim khâu
Chinese flag Chinese: 

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