darning | the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads |
dragonfly darning needle devil's darning needle sewing needle snake feeder snake doctor mosquito hawk skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
ball bearing needle bearing roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
crochet needle crochet hook | a needle with a hook on the end, used in crocheting |
darning needle embroidery needle | a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread |
hypodermic needle | a hollow needle |
knitting needle | needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends, usually used in pairs |
magnetic needle | a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction, used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole |
needle | a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) |
needle | a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument |
packing needle | a large needle used to sew up canvas packages |
phonograph needle needle | a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record |
sewing needle | a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth |
Space Needle | a towerfeet tall in Seattle, a tourist attraction |
upholstery needle | any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers |
needle biopsy | biopsy of deep tissue that is obtained through a hollow needle |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
virgin's bower old man's beard devil's darning needle Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
needle spike rush needle rush slender spike rush hair grass Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush, popular as aerator for aquariums |
needlewood needle-wood needle wood Hakea leucoptera | large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers, central and eastern Australia |
needlebush needle-bush needle bush Hakea lissosperma | shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers, eastern Australia |
Adam's needle Adam's needle-and-thread spoonleaf yucca needle palm Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
broom tree needle furze petty whin Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
acerate leaf needle | the leaf of a conifer |
needle blight needle cast leaf cast | a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall |
needle goad | goad or provoke,as by constant criticism, He needled her with his sarcastic remarks |
needle | prick with a needle |
acerate acerose acicular needle-shaped | narrow and long and pointed, as pine leaves |