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Needle (noun)
A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
“The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.”
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Needle (noun)
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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Needle (noun)
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
“The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.”
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Needle (noun)
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
“Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.”
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Needle (noun)
}} The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
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Needle (noun)
A text string that is searched for within another string.
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Needle (verb)
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
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Needle (verb)
To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
“Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.”
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Needle (verb)
To form in the shape of a needle.
“to needle crystals”
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Nettle (noun)
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
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Nettle (noun)
Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
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Nettle (noun)
Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
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Nettle (noun)
(Australian nettle);
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Nettle (noun)
Wood nettle (noshow=1);
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Nettle (noun)
s and spurge nettles of genus noshow=1:
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Nettle (noun)
, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
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Nettle (noun)
, Texas bull nettle,
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Nettle (noun)
, bull nettle,
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Nettle (noun)
Nettle trees or tree nettles:
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Nettle (noun)
Various species of the genus noshow=1:
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Nettle (noun)
(scratchbush),
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Nettle (noun)
(tree nettle);
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Nettle (noun)
(noshow=1);
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Nettle (noun)
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
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Nettle (noun)
(noshow=1).
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Nettle (noun)
(noshow=1);
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Nettle (noun)
, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
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Nettle (noun)
, horse-nettle;
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Nettle (noun)
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
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Nettle (noun)
Celtis (hackberry).
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Nettle (noun)
, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly noshow=1, white nettle;
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Nettle (noun)
(ver=190729, family Urticaceae);
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Nettle (noun)
or painted nettle (Coleus);
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Nettle (noun)
(Stachys);
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Nettle (noun)
(Galeopsis);
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Nettle (noun)
noshow=1,
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Nettle (noun)
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
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Nettle (verb)
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
“The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.”
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Nettle (verb)
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.