needle

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.

   reusable needles

   Nadel

   игла́iglá, иго́лкаigólka, спи́цаspíca

   го́лкаhólka, спи́цяspýcja, дро́тикdrótyk

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

   The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.

4. (разговорное)A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.

   Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.

   Nadel

   игла́iglá

   го́лкаhólka

   a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

5. A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.

   Nadel

   игла́iglá, иго́лкаigólka, хвои́нкаxvoínka

   го́лкаhólka, хво́яxvója

   the leaf of a conifer

6. A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.

7. (разговорное)The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.

8. A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a 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.

1. Compass needles point to the north.

   Стрелка компаса указывает на север.

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2. I pricked my thumb with a needle.

   Я уколол себе большой палец иглой.

   deIch habe mich mit der Nadel in den Daumen gestochen.

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3. Let me thread the needle for you.

   Позвольте, я вдену вам нитку в иголку.

   ukДай-но я допоможу тобі вставити голку в нитку.

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4. It isn't easy to thread a needle.

   Нелегко вдеть нитку в иголку.

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5. Do you know why cactuses have needles?

   Ты знаешь, почему у кактусов колючки?

   deWeißt du, warum Kakteen Stacheln haben?

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