needle

needle
1 noun (C)
1 SEWING
a) a small thin piece of steel, with a point at one end and a hole in the other, used for sewing: a needle and thread
b) a knitting needle
2 DRUGS a very thin, pointed steel tube at the end of a syringe, which is pushed into your skin to put a drug or medicine into your body or to take out blood
3 POINTING a long thin piece of metal on a scientific instrument, that moves backwards and forwards and points to numbers or directions
4 FROM A TREE a small needle-shaped leaf, especially from a pine tree: pine needles
5 FOR PLAYING RECORDS the very small, pointed part in a record player that picks up sound from the records; stylus (1)
6 like looking for a needle in a haystack informal used to say that something is almost impossible to find
7 a needle match BrE a game in which both teams are determined to win because they do not like each other
2 verb (T) informal to deliberately annoy someone by continuously making unkind remarks or stupid jokes: She's always needling me about my accent.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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