Definitions for needle

needle nee·dle

Spelling: [need-l]
IPA: /ˈnid l/

Needle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in needle (deeeln).

Definitions for needle

noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Medicine/Medical. a slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing. hypodermic needle.
  4. Informal. an injection of a drug or medicine; shot.
  5. any of various objects resembling or suggesting a needle.
  6. 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.
  7. Electricity. magnetic needle.
  8. a pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.
  9. Botany. a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer:
  10. Zoology. a slender sharp spicule.
  11. Chemistry, Mineralogy. a needlelike crystal.
  12. a sharp-pointed mass or pinnacle of rock.
  13. an obelisk or a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone:
  14. Also called needle beam. Building Trades. a short beam passed through a wall as a temporary support.

Idioms

  1. on the needle, Slang. taking drugs by injection, especially habitually.
  2. the needle, Informal. irritating abuse; teasing; heckling (used especially in the phrases give someone the needle and get the needle).

verb (used with object)

  1. to sew or pierce with or as if with a needle:
  2. Informal. to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action: to tease:
  3. Slang. to add alcohol or ether to (a beverage):

verb (used without object)

  1. to form needles in crystallization.
  2. to work with a needle.

Origin of needle

before 900; 1880-85 for def 16; Middle English nedle, Old English nǣdl, cognate with German Nadel; akin to Latin nēre to spin

Examples for needle

"I'll use my scissors and needle on them to-night," she said, ruthlessly.

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.

Who that has poached a pile does not gravitate there, as the needle to the pole?

All of these may factor into the inability to move the needle on the scale.

Lydia also gets her vitals checked, arm rubbed with alcohol, and glove-covered hands safely inserting the needle.

The only thing in which she showed ability, if so it might be called, was in the use of the needle.

Wherever I glance my eyes, they meet something that pricks them like a needle.

Watching others thrust the needle into their arms night after night turned her on to the idea of trying it.

How many hours in the twenty-four do you devote to your needle?

Word Value for needle
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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