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Needle

noun

The leaf of a conifer. Synonym: acerate leaf.

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: phonograph needle.

verb

Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism. Synonym: goad.

Prick with a needle.

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"Needle" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon a point like this, and surrounding it with unnatural and preternatural dangers. There is a wanton unreason embodied in the life of woman now; the present 'virtue' is a morbid unhealthy plant. Nature and God never poised the life of a woman upon such a needle's point. The whole modern idea of chastity has in it sensual exaggeration, surely, in part, remaining to us from other times, with what was good in it in ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... the statue in a low musical voice, "far away in a little street there is a poor house. One of the windows is open, and through it I can see a woman seated at a table. Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress. She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the Queen's maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball. In a bed in the corner of the room her little boy is lying ill. He has a fever, and is asking ...

— The Happy Prince and Other Tales • Oscar Wilde

... has advanced the opinion that with the Prussian needle rifle the hits are 60% of the shots fired. But then how explain the disappointment of M. Dreyse, the happy inventor of the needle rifle, when he compared Prussian and Austrian losses. This good old gentleman was disagreeably ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... courage to dare. She said to herself, "I shall triumph over her; her voice is as thin as a thread, and as sharp as a fine needle, while mine is full and powerful, and rolls like an organ; and as for her 'Fioritures,' I understand ...

— Frederick the Great and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... give him the chance of tilling the soil, of felling trees in the forest, sailing the seas in the teeth of a storm, dashing through space on an engine, but do not make an idler of him by forcing him all his life to attend to a small machine, to plough the head of a screw, or to drill the eye of a needle. ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

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