Needle
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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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. [1913 Webster] 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. [1913 Webster] 6. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body. [Informal] [PJC] 7. An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot. [PJC] Dipping needle. See under Dipping. Needle bar, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. Needle beam (Arch.), in shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. [archaic] Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. Needle ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also aikinite. Needle shell (Zool.), a sea urchin. Needle spar (Min.), aragonite. Needle telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. Sea needle (Zool.), the garfish. [1913 Webster] Needle \Nee"dle\, v. i. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles. [1913 Webster] Stylus \Sty"lus\, n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.] 1. An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1. [1913 Webster] 2. That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of a hard metal or of diamond. [PJC] 3. The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record; it is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record. [PJC] 4. (Computers) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet. [PJC] Stymie  needle n 1: the leaf of a conifer [syn: acerate leaf, needle] 2: a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument 3: a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) 4: a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record [syn: phonograph needle, needle] v 1: goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" [syn: needle, goad] 2: prick with a needle  Needle used only in the proverb, "to pass through a needle's eye" (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the "eye of a needle" in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Ex. 28:39; 26:36; Judg. 5:30).  needle [niːdl] Nadel  needle [niːdl] aiguille; aiguille à coudre aiguille; aiguille de montre épingle  needle fasz fenyôtû gramofontû hamiskártyás horgolótû idegesség iránytû kötôtû mutató nyelv(mérlegé) obeliszk sziklaszirt támasztógerenda támasztóék tûalakúszikla tû varrónô varrótû zsebtolvaj  needle ago  needle [niːdl] acus  needle [niːdl] naald naald; kompasnaald; wijzer naald; speld  needle [niːdl] agulha alfinete  needle [niːdl] булавка  needle [niːdl] aguja alfiler  needle [niːdl] nål knappnål; nål  needle Nadel f  276 Moby Thesaurus words for "needle": Gramophone, Gyrosin compass, PA, PA system, RDF, Victrola, aculeus, acumination, aggravate, annoy, arrow, audio sound system, audiophile, auger, badger, bait, banter, be at, bedevil, beset, between, binaural system, bit, bitch box, bite, blade, blaze, blunt, bore, borer, bother, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bramble, brier, bristle, broach, brown off, bug, bullhorn, bullyrag, burin, burn up, burr, cactus, cartridge, catchweed, ceramic pickup, chaff, changer, chivy, cleavers, compass, compass needle, cotyledon, countersink, crystal pickup, cusp, derived four-channel system, devil, die, direction, direction finder, direction post, discompose, discrete four-channel system, distemper, disturb, dog, drill, dun, empierce, engraving tool, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, exasperate, exercise, fash, finger post, fist, fix, flag, flog, floral leaf, foliole, four-channel stereo system, frond, get, glume, gnaw, goad, goose grass, gore, gouge, gouge out, graver, gripe, guide, guideboard, guidepost, gyrocompass, gyroscopic compass, gyrostatic compass, hand, harass, harry, haze, heckle, hector, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, hole, honeycomb, hound, hour hand, impale, index, index finger, inertial navigation system, intaglio, intercom, intercommunication system, involucre, involucrum, irk, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, jukebox, kid, knitting wire, lamina, lance, lash, lead, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, long-eyed sharp, loran, lubber line, magnetic compass, magnetic needle, magnetic pickup, miff, milepost, minute hand, molest, monaural system, mono, mucro, nag, neb, nettle, nib, nickelodeon, nudge, nudzh, peeve, penetrate, perforate, persecute, pester, petal, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pick on, pickup, pierce, pile, pine needle, pink, pique, plague, pluck the beard, point, pointer, poke, pother, prick, prickle, prod, provoke, public-address system, punch, puncture, put on, quadraphonic sound system, quill, radio compass, radio direction finder, radio-phonograph combination, rag, rally, razz, ream, ream out, record changer, record player, rib, riddle, ride, rile, roast, rocker, roil, ruffle, run through, scorper, seal, seed leaf, sepal, sew, sew up, sharp, shoran, signboard, signpost, skewer, sound reproduction system, sound truck, spathe, spear, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, spire, spit, spur, squawk box, stab, stamp, stereo, stick, sticker, sting, stipula, stipule, stitch, straw, style, stylus, system, tailor, tap, tape deck, tape recorder, tease, thistle, thorn, tip, tone arm, torment, transcription turntable, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, try the patience, turntable, tweak the nose, twit, vex, whip, worry, yucca Needle related |
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