The meaning of NEEDLE is a small slender usually steel instrument that has an eye for thread or surgical sutures at one end and that is used for sewing. How to use needle in a sentence.
A needle is also a thin metal tube with a sharp, pointed end, used to put a liquid, such as a medicine, into the body or to remove a liquid, such as blood, from the body.
This Statute prohibits any person from discarding disposable or reusable hypodermic needles or syringes, in public or private places which are accessible to other persons (including trespassers) without first destroying the needle or syringe.
Hypodermic needle, a hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject fluid into or extract fluid from the body Surgical needle, several types of needles used for surgical suture
in the groove - An allusion to the reproduction of music by a needle on a gramophone record. needle - Has the same Indo-European base as Latin nere, "to spin," and Greek nema, "thread."
needle (plural needles) 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. synonym
Definition of needle noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
get the needle, have the needle ⇒ Brit informal to feel dislike, distaste, nervousness, or annoyance (for): she got the needle after he had refused her invitation
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin the nurse inserted the needle into his vein and collected some blood for testing
