needle

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A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc

• Do you have a needle?

  Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR

• Tom picked a needle up off the floor.

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc

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A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph

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A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus

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A needle-like leaf found on some conifersselten

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A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairsselten

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The death penalty carried out by lethal injectionselten

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A text string that is searched for within another string — see: needle in a haystackselten

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Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australiaselten

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A move in which the performer begins with two hands and one leg on the floor, then kicks the other leg into a full splitselten