needle meaning

• Noun: needle  needl
  1. The leaf of a conifer
     - acerate leaf 
  2. A slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument 
  3. A sharp pointed implement (usually steel) 
  4. A stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
     - phonograph needle
  Verb: needle  needl
  1. Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
     "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"
     - goad 
  2. Prick with a needle

  Derived forms: needling, needles, needled

  Type of: beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, implement, molest, plague, pointer, prick, prickle, provoke, simple leaf, stylus

  Encyclopedia: Needle

• 
  [American slang]
  tr. to annoy someone.
  • Tom is always needling Frank.
  • Stop needling me!
  
  
• 
  [British slang]
  Verb. To make jibes at, irritate. {Informal}
  
• 
  [Architecture]
  1.

  A piece of timber laid horizontally and supported on props or shores under a wall or building, etc.; provides temporary support while the foundation or part beneath is altered, repaired, or underpinned.

  2.

  A short timber, or the like, which passes through a hole in a wall; used to support a shore, a scaffold, etc.

• 
  [Electronics]
  1. The stylus of a phonograph cartridge.
  2. The pointer of an indicating meter.
  3. One of the electrodes in a voltage-measuring spark gap (see NEEDLE GAP).
  4. The slender, pointed metal tip of a test probe.
  
• 
  [Medicine]
  Sharp instruments used for puncturing or suturing. n
  1 : a small slender usu. steel instrument designed to carry sutures when sewing tissues in surgery
  2 : a slender hollow instrument for introducing material into or removing material from the body parenterally
  vt nee·dled; nee·dling : to puncture, operate on, or inject with a needle ‹needling a cataract› ‹needles the population against polio›
  

• Threading a needle is an art in itself.
• She was given a needle for whooping cough.
• Stop needling him or he might hit you.
• You were needling him about the twenty cents.
• What a mannish way to thread a needle!
• She feel very awkward with a needle.
• You haven't got a needle and thread i suppose?
• It is like fishing for a needle in the ocean.
• needless to say, he kept his promise.
• Insert the needle into the cloth, jane.

• "needle" meaning in Chinese: n. 1. 针,缝针；编织针。2.(注射、唱片等的)针；磁针,罗盘针,指针。3.尖岩,尖峰；方尖碑；【化、矿】针状...
• "needle" meaning in Japanese: １needle n. 針. 【動詞＋】 ◆The dressmaker was plying her needle ...
• "needle" meaning in Russian: 1) иголка, игла Ex: needle's eye игольное ушко; трудный пу...
• "needle" meaning in French: n. aiguille v. coudre; percer; piquer; vexer