needle

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

needles

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

needle

past (v2)

needled

past participle (v3)

needled

present participle

needling

3rd person singular

needles

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.

   • The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.

2. 2.A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.

   • The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.

3. 3.A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.(informal)

   • Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.

4. 4.Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.

   • Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
   • To needle Lady Leviathan, Hel has convinced her husband to agree to the heartful offer.
   • Significantly, similar language was used by Sullivan, who had been needled by a question from a Ukrainian activist who suggested the US was “afraid of Ukraine winning”.

2. 2.To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.

   • Possibly the greatest effect is achieved in the hand by needling the thumb, the index finger and the region of the 1st and 2nd metacarpal.

3. 3.To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

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