| 单词 | needle |
| 释义 | needle (once / 343 pages) nv A needle is a small, pointed piece of metal that's used in medicine or sewing. When a tailor sews a button on your shirt or even when a doctor sews your skin back together, a needle is used. Needles are sharp — when you stitch fabric with a needle, you might use a metal thimble to protect your fingertip. When a doctor or nurse uses a needle, it needs to be very sharp — it has to be able to penetrate human skin to stitch up a wound or inject a medication. When you needle someone, you don't literally poke them, but you do annoy or provoke them in some way. WORD FAMILYneedle: needled, needlelike, needles, needling USAGE EXAMPLESQ. Why are there brown needles as well as green ones on the average evergreen? New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) His “Arbor Series,” at Cross MacKenzie Gallery, includes views of silhouetted pines, their branches and needles often divided among multiple frames. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The show this year on the Space Needle will be longer than usual — 10 minutes long. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) Hypo|Hyper crochet hook, crochet needle a needle with a hook on the end; used in crocheting dry pointa steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate hypodermic needlea hollow needle knitting needleneedle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends; usually used in pairs packing needlea large needle used to sew up canvas packages sewing needlea needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth darning needle, embroidery needlea long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread sharpa long thin sewing needle with a sharp point upholstery needleany of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers implement instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end 2n a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument Hyper pointer an indicator as on a dial 3n the leaf of a conifer Syn|Hyper acerate leaf simple leaf a leaf that is not divided into parts 4n a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record Syn|Hyper phonograph needle stylus a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player 5v prick with a needle Hyper prick, prickle make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn 6v goad or provoke,as by constant criticism He needled her with his sarcastic remarks Syn|Hyper goad beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke annoy continually or chronically |
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