NEEDLE
\nˈiːdə͡l], \nˈiːdəl], \n_ˈiː_d_əl]\
Definitions of NEEDLE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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prick with a needle; in sewing or embroidering
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a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
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a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
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a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
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a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
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a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
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prick with a needle
By Princeton University
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See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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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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Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
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To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.
By Oddity Software
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See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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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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Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
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To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.
By Noah Webster.
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Sharp instruments used for puncturing or suturing.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small, sharp-pointed steel instrument furnished with an eye to hold thread; a thin, straight rod used in knitting or, when hooked at the end, for crocheting; anything sharply pointed like a needle; the magnetic needle.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A slender, usually sharp-pointed, instrument used for puncturing the tissues, for guiding the thread or wire in suturing, or for passing a ligature around an artery. 2. To separate the tissues by means of one or two needles, in the dissection of small parts. 3. To perform discission of a cataract by means of a needle or very slender knife.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Pointed instrument holding suture for sewing wounds.
By William R. Warner
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A small, sharp-pointed steel instrument, with an eye for a thread: anything like a needle, as the magnet of a compass.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A small instrument of steel, pointed at one end, with an eye at the other to receive a thread, used in sewing; a small pointed piece of steel, such as is used in the mariner's compass; any crystallized substance in the form of a needle.
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To form needle-shaped crystals.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A small steel instrument, pointed at one end, and having an eye or hole at the other, used in sewing; the artificial magnet of the compass; anything needle-shaped.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A steel instrument, used in many professions. In Surgery, a steel, gold, silver, or platina instrument, that may be round, flat, or triangular, straight, or curved, supported or not by a handle, but having always a point, by means of which it penetrates the textures; and often having, either near the point, or more commonly, near the other extremity, an aperture or eye for the reception of a thread or tape, which it introduces into the parts.
By Robley Dunglison
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Sharp instrument for sewing or puncturing.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A metallic instrument used for sewing or puncturing, usually having one end pointed and an opening in the other for a thread, [Old Eng]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A small instrument of steel pointed at one end, and pierced in the order to receive the thread, used in sewing and embroidering;- a magnetized slender bar of steel, resting on a pivot, in a mariner’s surveyor’s, or other compass, so as to turn freely toward the magnetic poles of the earth;- a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, and the like.
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