<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.</li><li>Any of various similar, usually considerably larger, implements for making stitches, as one for use in knitting or one hooked at the end for use in crocheting.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: a slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing.</li><li>Hypodermic needle.</li><li>Informal: an injection of a drug or medicine; shot.</li><li>Any of various objects resembling or suggesting a needle.</li><li>The tapered stylus at the end of a phonographic tonearm, used to transmit vibrations from a record groove to a transducer for conversion to audible signals.</li><li>Electricity: magnetic needle.</li><li>A pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.</li><li>Botany: a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer: a pine needle.</li><li>Zoology: a slender sharp spicule.</li><li>Chemistry, Mineralogy: a needlelike crystal.</li><li>A sharp-pointed mass or pinnacle of rock.</li><li>An obelisk or a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone: Cleopatra's Needle.</li><li>Also called needle beam: a short beam passed through a wall as a temporary support.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used with object) to sew or pierce with or as if with a needle: to needle a patch on a sleeve.</p></li><li><p>Informal: to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action: We needled her into going with us.</p></li><li><p>To tease: We needled him about his big ears.</p></li><li><p>Slang: to add alcohol or ether to (a beverage): to needle beer.</p></li><li><p>(used without object) to form needles in crystallization.</p></li><li><p>To work with a needle.</p></li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>