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needle
(mass) | needle
- ihla, ihlica, podpichovať, pichať z ihlou |
needle
(encz) | needle,jehla n: |
needle
(encz) | needle,jehlice n: Zdeněk Brož |
needle
(encz) | needle,jehlička n: Zdeněk Brož |
needle
(encz) | needle,jehlový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Needle
(gcide) | Needle \Nee"dle\, v. t.
1. To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
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2. To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.
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3. To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or
daring.
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Needle
(gcide) | Needle \Nee"dle\, v. i.
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
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Needle
(gcide) | Needle \Nee"dle\ (n[=e]"d'l), n. [OE. nedle, AS. n[=ae]dl; akin
to D. neald, OS. n[=a]dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[=a]dal,
n[=a]dala, Icel. n[=a]l, Sw. n[*a]l, Dan. naal, and also to
G. n[aum]hen to sew, OHG. n[=a]jan, L. nere to spin, Gr.
ne`ein, and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad
needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.]
1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end,
with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
--Chaucer.
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Note: In some needles (as for sewing machines) the eye is at
the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the
blunt end.
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2. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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3. 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.
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4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine
trees. See Pinus.
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5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed
crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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6. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic
needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.
[Informal]
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7. An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
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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.
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needle
(gcide) | Stylus \Sty"lus\, n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.]
1. An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
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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.
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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.
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4. (Computers) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify
the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
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needle
(wn) | 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 |
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