Meaning

5 senses
  1. A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.

    Heuschober, Heuhaufen

    стогstog, стог се́наstog séna, копна́kopná

    стігstih, стіг сі́наstih sína, копи́цяkopýcja

    a stack of hay

  2. A standing wave in a rapid.

  3. The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)

  4. (broadly)Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.

  5. A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

    deDas ist wie die Suche nach der Nadel im Heuhaufen.

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  2. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

    ruЭто всё равно что искать иголку в стоге сена.

    deDas ist, wie eine Nadel im Heuhaufen zu suchen.

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  3. That's like finding a needle in a haystack.

    ruЭто как найти иголку в стоге сена.

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  4. The boys were playing in the field, near the new haystack.

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  5. Finding a good language course on the Internet is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay:
Русский
By meaning 1
a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a mound, pile, or stack of stored hay:

Origin

From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack.

From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack.

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Forms

plural: haystacks
Singularhaystack
Pluralhaystacks

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
pile of stored hay:hayrickwynd
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
haystack — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto