needle : Idioms & Phrases


Adam's needle

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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  • (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.
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adam's needle-and-thread

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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Crochet hook, Crochet needle

  • a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.
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crochet needle

  • noun a needle with a hook on the end; used in crocheting
    crochet hook.
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Darning needle

  • noun a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
    darning needle.
  • noun slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
    dragonfly; snake doctor; mosquito hawk; skeeter hawk; devil's darning needle; snake feeder; darning needle.
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  • . (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. In this sense, usually written with a hyphen. Called also devil's darning-needle.
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Declension of the needle

  • declination of the needle.
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Declination of the compassneedle

  • the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.
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devil's darning needle

  • noun common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
    old man's beard; Clematis virginiana; virgin's bower.
  • noun slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
    dragonfly; snake doctor; mosquito hawk; skeeter hawk; devil's darning needle; snake feeder; darning needle.
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Devil's darning-needle

  • . (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t.
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Dip of the needle, ∨ Magnetic dip

  • the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; called also inclination.
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Dipping needle

  • a magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
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embroidery needle

  • noun a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
    darning needle.
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Etching needle

  • a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching.
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Fashioning needle

  • (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
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Fissure needle

  • (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight.
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five-needled

  • adjective satellite (of conifers) having five needles
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four-needled

  • adjective satellite (of conifers) having four needles
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hypodermic needle

  • noun a hollow needle
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ice needle

  • noun small crystals of ice
    diamond dust; frost snow; frost mist; ice crystal; poudrin; snow mist.
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Inclination of the needle

  • . See Dip of the needle, under Dip.
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knitting needle

  • noun needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends; usually used in pairs
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Magnetic needle

  • noun a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction; used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole
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  • a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's.
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Needle bar

  • the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached.
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Needle beam

  • (Arch.), to 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.
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needle bearing

  • noun bearings containing small metal balls
    ball bearing; roller bearing.
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needle biopsy

  • noun biopsy of deep tissue that is obtained through a hollow needle
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needle blight

  • noun a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
    needle blight; leaf cast.
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needle bush

  • noun shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia
    needlebush; Hakea lissosperma; needle bush.
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needle cast

  • noun a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
    needle blight; leaf cast.
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Needle furze

  • noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
    Genista anglica; broom tree; petty whin.
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  • (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica).
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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.
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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.
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Needle ore

  • (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; called also aikinite.
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needle palm

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
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needle rush

  • noun fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums
    Eleocharis acicularis; hair grass; needle rush; slender spike rush.
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Needle shell

  • (Zoöl.), a sea urchin.
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Needle spar

  • (Min.), aragonite.
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needle spike rush

  • noun fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums
    Eleocharis acicularis; hair grass; needle rush; slender spike rush.
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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.
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needle wood

  • noun large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
    needlewood; Hakea leucoptera; needle wood.
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needle-bush

  • noun shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia
    needlebush; Hakea lissosperma; needle bush.
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needle-pointed

Nee"dle-pointed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Pointed as needles.
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needle-shaped

  • adjective satellite narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves
    acerate; acicular; acerose.
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needle-wood

  • noun large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
    needlewood; Hakea leucoptera; needle wood.
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Netting needle

  • a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.
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packing needle

  • noun a large needle used to sew up canvas packages
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phonograph needle

  • noun a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
    needle.
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Pine needle

  • (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves of a pine tree. See Pinus.
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Pine-needle wool

  • . See Pine wool (below).
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Pink needle

  • the pin grass; so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria.
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pins and needles

  • noun a sharp tingling sensation from lack of circulation
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Sea needle

  • (Zoöl.), the garfish.
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sewing needle

  • noun a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth
  • noun slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
    dragonfly; snake doctor; mosquito hawk; skeeter hawk; devil's darning needle; snake feeder; darning needle.
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Shepherd's needle

  • (Bot.), the lady's comb.
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space needle

  • noun a tower 605 feet tall in Seattle; a tourist attraction
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Spanish needles

  • noun the seed of bur marigolds
    beggar-ticks.
  • noun common bur marigold of the eastern United States
    Bidens bipinnata.
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  • (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens bipinnata) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
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Tape needle

  • . See Bodkin, n., 4.
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Thread needle

  • a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; called also thread the needle.
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three-needled

  • adjective satellite (of conifers) having three needles
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touch-needle

Touch"-nee`dle noun
Definitions
  1. (Metal.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
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two-needled

  • adjective satellite (of conifers) having two needles
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upholstery needle

  • noun any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers
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Variation of the needle

  • (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the true north and south line; called also declination of the needle.
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