needle
针,针刺,针头,针剂
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : Informal. 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.
- : Electricity. magnetic needle.
- : a pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.
- : Botany. a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer: a pine needle.
- : Zoology. a slender sharp spicule.
- : Chemistry, Mineralogy. a needlelike crystal.
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Phrases
- needle in a haystack
- needless to say
- on pins and needles
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
You keep adding relevant, high-quality new content, but the needle barely moves.
We had a data operation that showed how we could do it, but it was really going to be threading the needle.
In college, I volunteered to have a needle jabbed into the fleshy part between my thumb and forefinger in the name of acupuncture.
It was a test of a new type of needle that his team has invented.
A microneedle pokes into the skin just a fraction as deeply as an ordinary needle.
There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.
All of these may factor into the inability to move the needle on the scale.
A sheet covered his body from the neck down, making it impossible to see where, exactly, the needle had been inserted.
For instance, in one study, white subjects were shown videos of people being stuck with a needle.
Lydia also gets her vitals checked, arm rubbed with alcohol, and glove-covered hands safely inserting the needle.
The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.
The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes -like.