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noun

A very fine slender piece of polished metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing.

Usage examples:

A darning needle
verb

Prick or pierce with or as if with a needle.

Usage examples:

Dust needled his eyes
idiom

Something is extremely difficult to find

Usage examples:

With 500 channels on tv, finding quality children's shows is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
noun

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus hakea (family proteaceae) having stiff needle-like leaves, especially h. leucoptera and h. tephrosperma.

noun

Fine-ribbed corduroy fabric.

Usage examples:

A soft needlecord jacket
noun

Needlework.

Usage examples:

The typical embroidery of the nomads of india, needlecraft has been passed on for generations linki…
verb

Prick or pierce with or as if with a needle.

Usage examples:

Dust needled his eyes
noun

A very fine slender piece of polished metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing.

Usage examples:

A darning needle
noun

Any of a number of long, slender fish with elongated beaklike jaws containing sharply pointed teeth.

Usage examples:

Flyingfishes are nested within halfbeaks, and sauries are nested within needlefishes.
noun

Any of a number of long, slender fish with elongated beaklike jaws containing sharply pointed teeth.

Usage examples:

Flyingfishes are nested within halfbeaks, and sauries are nested within needlefishes.
noun

The length of thread put into a needle at one time.

Usage examples:

If you wish to control the way the colors look, work the first needleful of thread around two sides.
noun

The length of thread put into a needle at one time.

Usage examples:

If you wish to control the way the colors look, work the first needleful of thread around two sides.
adjective

Long, slender, and pointed.

Usage examples:

Fine needle-like leaves
noun

A drug addict, especially a person addicted to injecting drugs.

noun

A drug addict, especially a person addicted to injecting drugs.

noun

Closely stitched embroidery worked over canvas.

Usage examples:

The stitchers display dazzling skill and finesse, creating textured surfaces of petit point, needle…
verb

Embroider in needlepoint.

Usage examples:

I imagine a sort of holding area for souls, not unlike the d.m.v. my mother, in her surgical gown, …
verb

Embroider in needlepoint.

Usage examples:

I imagine a sort of holding area for souls, not unlike the d.m.v. my mother, in her surgical gown, …
noun

Closely stitched embroidery worked over canvas.

Usage examples:

The stitchers display dazzling skill and finesse, creating textured surfaces of petit point, needle…
noun

A person who annoys or antagonizes another.

Usage examples:

A miserable little needler who can't stand anybody else's happiness
noun

A person who annoys or antagonizes another.

Usage examples:

A miserable little needler who can't stand anybody else's happiness
noun

A very fine slender piece of polished metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing.

Usage examples:

A darning needle
verb

Prick or pierce with or as if with a needle.

Usage examples:

Dust needled his eyes
adjective

(of something undesirable) not necessary because avoidable.

Usage examples:

I deplore needless waste

Obviously

Usage examples:

Needless to say, because of the accident he won’t be at work for a while.
phrase

Of course.

Usage examples:

Needless to say, he didn't believe me

Needlessly

ˈniːdləsli
adverb

In a way that is unnecessary because it is avoidable.

Usage examples:

The war was needlessly prolonged
noun

A form of zeolite with needle-like crystals; mesotype.

noun

A woman or girl who has particular sewing skills or who sews for a living.

Usage examples:

An experienced needlewoman
noun

A woman or girl who has particular sewing skills or who sews for a living.

Usage examples:

An experienced needlewoman
noun

A needlebush (hakea species) (also "needle-wood tree").

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