Needle vs. Nettle
Needlenoun
A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
Needlenoun
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
Needlenoun
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
Needlenoun
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
Needlenoun
A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
Needlenoun
}} The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
Needlenoun
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Needleverb
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
Needleverb
(transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
Needleverb
(transitive) To form in the shape of a needle.
Needlenoun
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.
Needlenoun
See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
Needlenoun
A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
Needlenoun
One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Needlenoun
Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
Needlenoun
A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.
Needlenoun
An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
Needleverb
To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
Needleverb
To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.
Needleverb
To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.
Needleverb
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Needlenoun
as of a conifer
Needlenoun
a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
Needlenoun
a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
Needlenoun
a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
Needleverb
goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;
Needleverb
prick with a needle
Nettlenoun
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Nettlenoun
Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
Nettlenoun
Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
Nettlenoun
s and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus:
Nettlenoun
(Eucnide);
Nettlenoun
(Dendrocnide photinophylla).
Nettlenoun
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
Nettlenoun
(Solanum carolinense);
Nettlenoun
Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
Nettlenoun
Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
Nettlenoun
Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
Nettlenoun
Celtis (hackberry).
Nettlenoun
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
Nettlenoun
, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
Nettlenoun
(Boehmeria, family Urticaceae);
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or painted nettle (Coleus);
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(Stachys);
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(Galeopsis);
Nettlenoun
Agastache urticifolia,
Nettlenoun
, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
Nettlenoun
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
Nettleverb
(transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
Nettleverb
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
Nettlenoun
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracilis is common in the Northern, and Urtica chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. The common European species, Urtica urens and Urtica dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. Urtica pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
Nettleverb
To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
Nettlenoun
any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
Nettleverb
sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
Nettleverb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
