needle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: needle	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for needle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
needle n the leaf of a conifer Synonym(s): acerate leaf, needle a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record Synonym(s): phonograph needle, needle v goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" Synonym(s): needle, goad prick with a needle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Declination \Dec`lina"tion\, n. [L. declinatio a bending aside, an avoiding: cf. F. d[82]clination a decadence. See {Declension}.] 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. [bd]The declination of monarchy.[b8] --Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. --Waller. 3. The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. The declination of atoms in their descent. --Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. --South. 4. The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. --Stow. 5. (Astron.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. 6. (Dialing) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. 7. (Gram.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See {Decline}, v. t., 4. {Angle of declination}, the angle made by a descending line, or plane, with a horizontal plane. {Circle of declination}, a circle parallel to the celestial equator. {Declination compass} (Physics), a compass arranged for finding the declination of the magnetic needle. {Declination of the compass} [or] {needle}, the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle* makes with the true north-and-south line.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Needle \Nee"dle\, v. t. To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Needle \Nee"dle\, v. i. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Needle \Nee"dle\, n. [OE. nedle, AS. n[?]dl; akin to D. neald, OS. n[be]dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[be]dal, n[be]dala, Icel. n[be]l, Sw. n[86]l, Dan. naal, and also to G. n[84]hen to sew, OHG. n[be]jan, L. nere to spin, Gr. [?], and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. --Chaucer. Note: In some needles(as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end. 2. See {Magnetic needle}, under {Magnetic}. 3. 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. 4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See {Pinus}. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. {Dipping needle}. See under {Dipping}. {Needle bar}, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. {Needle beam} (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. {Needle furze} (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin ({Genista Anglica}). {Needle gun}, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. {Needle loom} (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. {Needle ore} (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also {aikinite}. {Needle shell} (Zo[94]l.), a sea urchin. {Needle spar} (Min.), aragonite. {Needle telegraph}, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. {Sea needle} (Zo[94]l.), the garfish.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Needle used only in the proverb, "to pass through a needle's eye" (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the "eye of a needle" in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Ex. 28:39; 26:36; Judg. 5:30).