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needle
needle is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
- 2noun
See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
- 5noun
Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- 6transitive verb
To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
- 7intransitive verb
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
- 8noun
a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
- 9noun
a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- 10noun
a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
- 11noun
the leaf of a conifer
- 12verb
goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
"He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"
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- 13verb
prick with a needle
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