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.

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Needle Quotations

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary

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

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Adolf Hitler

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
Maria Mitchell

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

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
Grandmaster Flash

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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