needle
nee duhl
- n the leaf of a conifer
- n a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- n a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
- n a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
- v goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
He needled her with his sarcastic remarks - v prick with a needle
- Despite campaign promises to do so, Obama has not lifted the federal funding ban on needle-exchange programs for drug addicts.
- Ever since people began using phonographs for pleasure they have found their pleasure marred by the continual necessity of changing needles.
- Both Mutrux and Jerry Schatzberg, who directed Needle Park, are too much absorbed by the mechanics of addiction.