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