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Definition of Needle |
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Needle
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. 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. One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Any, Are, As, At, By, Carries, Crocheting, Crystal, Crystallize, End, Eye, Form, Formed, Hooked, In, Instrument, Knitting, Leaves, Like, Magnetic, Needle, Netting, Obelisk, Object, Of, One, Or, Pine, Pinnacle, Pinus, Pointed, Process, Receive, Rock, Rod, Secondary, See, Sewing, Shape, Sharp, Sharply, Slender, Small, Steel, The, Thread, To, Twine, Under, Used, Which, Wire, With |
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Needle Quotations
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. Adolf Hitler I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. William S. Burroughs If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on. Gwen Ifill Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. Goldie Hawn There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Rebecca West |
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Needle Translations
needle in Dutch is naald needle in Finnish is neula needle in German is Nadel needle in Italian is ago, spilla needle in Portuguese is alfinete, agulha needle in Spanish is alfiler, aguja |
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