needle : Idioms & Phrases

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

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

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• 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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• declination of the needle.

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

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• 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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• . (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t.

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

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

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

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

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• adjective satellite (of conifers) having five needles
  

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• adjective satellite (of conifers) having four needles
  

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• noun a hollow needle
  

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

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• . See Dip of the needle, under Dip.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• (Zoöl.), a sea urchin.

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• (Min.), aragonite.

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

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

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Nee"dle-pointed` adjective

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1. Pointed as needles.

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

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

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• noun a large needle used to sew up canvas packages
  

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

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

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• . See Pine wool (below).

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

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• noun a sharp tingling sensation from lack of circulation
  

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• (Zoöl.), the garfish.

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• 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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• (Bot.), the lady's comb.

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

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• 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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• . See Bodkin, n., 4.

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• 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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• adjective satellite (of conifers) having three needles
  

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Touch"-nee`dle noun

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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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• adjective satellite (of conifers) having two needles
  

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

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• (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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