- a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually 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.
- any of various similar, usually considerably larger, implements for making stitches, as one for use in knitting or one hooked at the end for use in crocheting.
- Medicine/Medical.
- a slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing.
- hypodermic needle.
- an injection of a drug or medicine; shot.
- any of various objects resembling or suggesting a 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.
- magnetic needle.
- a pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.
- a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer: a pine needle.
- a slender sharp spicule.
- a needlelike crystal.
- a sharp-pointed mass or pinnacle of rock.
- an obelisk or a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone: Cleopatra's Needle.
- a short beam passed through a wall as a temporary support.
- to sew or pierce with or as if with a needle: to needle a patch on a sleeve.
- Informal.
- to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action: We needled her into going with us.
- to tease: We needled him about his big ears.
- to add alcohol or ether to (a beverage): to needle beer.
- to form needles in crystallization.
- to work with a needle.
- taking drugs by injection, especially habitually.
- irritating abuse; teasing; heckling (used especially in the phrases give someone the needle and get the needle).
- a pointed slender piece of metal, usually steel, with a hole or eye in it through which thread is passed for sewing
- a somewhat larger rod with a point at one or each end, used in knitting
- a similar instrument with a hook at one end for crocheting
- another name for stylus (def. 3)
- a small thin pointed device, esp one made of stainless steel, used to transmit the vibrations from a gramophone record to the pick-up
- med
- the long hollow pointed part of a hypodermic syringe, which is inserted into the body
- an informal name for hypodermic syringe
- a pointed steel instrument, often curved, for suturing, puncturing, or ligating
- a long narrow stiff leaf, esp of a conifer, in which water loss is greatly reduced
- any slender sharp spine, such as the spine of a sea urchin
- any slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- short for magnetic needle
- a crystal resembling a needle in shape
- a sharp pointed metal instrument used in engraving and etching
- anything long and pointed, such as an obelisk
- a short horizontal beam passed through a wall and supported on vertical posts to take the load of the upper part of the wall
- informal
- anger or intense rivalry, esp in a sporting encounter
- (as modifier)
- to feel dislike, distaste, nervousness, or annoyance (for)
- to goad or provoke, as by constant criticism
- to sew, embroider, or prick (fabric) with a needle
- to increase the alcoholic strength of (beer or other beverages)
- (of a substance) to form needle-shaped crystals