Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word NEEDLE

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Definitions of NEEDLE

1. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
2. A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
3. A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
4. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
5. A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
6. A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
7. (informal) A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
8. (informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
9. (programming) A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
10. (entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
11. (transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
12. (ambitransitive) To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
13. A surname.

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Examples of Using NEEDLE in a Sentence

• Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth.
• Cleopatra (cylinder ship), a vessel constructed to convey Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London in 1877.
• Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.
• Kanaloa, the Hawaiian god of the underworld, is represented by the phallic stone of the ʻĪao Needle.
• The teller of the joke says, "Knock, knock!"; the recipient responds, "Who's there?" The teller gives a name (such as "Noah"), a description (such as "Police"), or something that purports to be a name (such as "Needle").
• Quilting is the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually using a needle and thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm quilting system.
• The specifications were originally designed by Dave Needle and RJ Mical of New Technology Group, and were licensed by third parties; most hardware were packaged as home video game consoles under the name Interactive Multiplayer, and Panasonic produced the first models in 1993 with further renditions released afterwards by manufacturers GoldStar, Sanyo, Creative Labs, and Samsung Electronics.
• It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854.
• It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element, such as a compass card or compass rose, which can pivot to align itself with magnetic north.
• The fair saw the construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled.
• Kit Carson Mountain is a walk-up (Class 2), but only if the correct route is carefully followed; it has claimed more lives than Crestone Peak or Crestone Needle.
• Ørsted discovered the connection between magnetism and electric current when a magnetic field produced by a current-carrying copper bar deflected a magnetised needle during a lecture demonstration.
• Other techniques include venous or arterial needle sticks, cord blood sampling, or umbilical line collection.
• During his experiments, he observed that a junction of dissimilar metals produces a deflexion on a magnetic needle (compass) when exposed to a temperature gradient.
• The mineral forms prismatic needle-like crystals ("needle ironstone") but is more typically massive.
• Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread.
• The Secret Sisters, a singing and songwriting duo from neighboring Colbert County, Alabama, wrote a song called "Iuka" for their album Put Your Needle Down.
• Grasses and other flora present include little bluestem, prairie sandreed, blue grama, and needle and thread grass.
• A recent trend since the Hardiness rezoning is the discovery that certain tropical plants like the Needle Palm, Chinese Windmill Palm and Fiber Banana trees can grow in Amherst with some protection.
• The entire southern wing of the hotel was given to bath rooms, including; "the plunge," Turkish, Russian, Needle, Shower, and Steam baths.
• Needle lace is a type of lace created using a needle and thread to create hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself.
• Crocheting was considered an easy, and less time-consuming, but otherwise clearly inferior surrogate for "true" lace such as bobbin lace, needle lace or netting.
• At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of blood to drip onto the freshly fallen snow on the black window sill.
• In the 20th century cannabis lost its appeal as a medicinal product, largely due to the development of apparently suitable alternatives, such as the hypodermic needle, water-soluble analgesics and synthetic hypnotics.
• Since epidemics are a problem, the wardens try to fill cells entirely with people with AIDS, or with tuberculosis; however, this does little to curb the problem, since many inmates are drug users, and there is at most one needle per cell.

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