needle

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.
  2. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
  3. A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
    — a compass needle
  4. A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus. informal
    — Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
  5. A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
    — At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth.
  6. A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
  7. The death penalty carried out by lethal injection. informal
  8. A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
    — Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.
  9. Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
  10. A move in which the performer begins with two hands and one leg on the floor, then kicks the other leg into a full split.
动词 v.
  1. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
    — […]the eyes were once more beginning to show the old nystagmus; so I decided to needle the cataracts, and on Jan. 31 I needled the right eye.
  2. To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at. transitive
    — Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
  3. To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle. ambitransitive
    — to needle crystals

词形变化

needles plural needles present,singular,third-person needling participle,present needled participle,past needled past

词汇关系

衍生词
Adam's needle bioneedle budge the needle Buffon's needle problem butterfly needle camel through the eye of a needle cop the needle cryoneedle devil's darning needle devil's needle dip of the needle Eve's needle fine-needle aspiration it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God knight of the needle larding-needle microneedle move the needle multineedle nanoneedle needle-and-thread grass needle aspiration biopsy needle bar needle beam needle bearing needle beer needlebook needle bush needlebush needlecase needle-clawed bushbaby needlecord needlecraft needle dick needledom needle drop needle exchange needlefelt needlefish needleful needle furze Needle Galaxy needle girl needle-girl needlegrass needle gun needle holder needle ice needle in a haystack needle-in-the-eye syndrome needle lace needlelace needleleaf needleless needlelike needle loom needlemaker needlemaking needleman needle match needle-mover needle mover needle-moving needlenose needle-nose gar needlenose pliers needle ore needle palm needle park needle phobia needlepoint needleproof needlepunch needle scratch needle-shaped needle sharer needle sharing needle-sharp needle shell needle sickness needle spar needlestack needlestick needlestone needlet needletail needle-tailed swift needle talk needle telegraph needle threader needle time needle tower needletrade needle trade needle valve needle wire needlewise needlewoman needlewood needle-work needlework needleworked needleworking needly netting-needle on pins and needles on the needle packing-needle peg the needle pins and needles roweling-needle sea needle shepherd's needle silver needle noodle Spanish needles stick a needle in my eye thread needle thread the needle touch-needle needler
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₁tlom
Proto-Germanic *nēþlą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-Germanic *nēþlō
Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu
Old English nǣdl
Middle English nedle
English needle
From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Näddele (“sewing needle”), Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), nähen (“sew”), Luxembourgish Nol (“needle”), Vilamovian nöłd (“needle”), Yiddish נאָדל (nodl, “needle, pin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish nål (“needle”), Elfdalian ną̊l (“needle”), Faroese, Icelandic nál (“needle”), Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰 (nēþla, “sewing needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₁tlom
Proto-Germanic *nēþlą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-Germanic *nēþlō
Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu
Old English nǣdl
Middle English nedle
English needle
From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Näddele (“sewing needle”), Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), nähen (“sew”), Luxembourgish Nol (“needle”), Vilamovian nöłd (“needle”), Yiddish נאָדל (nodl, “needle, pin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish nål (“needle”), Elfdalian ną̊l (“needle”), Faroese, Icelandic nál (“needle”), Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰 (nēþla, “sewing needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.
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