Needle vs. Syringe

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

Syringenoun

A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane.

Syringenoun

A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

Syringeverb

To clean, or inject fluid, by means of a syringe.

Syringenoun

A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; - used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.

Syringeverb

To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

Syringeverb

To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

Syringenoun

a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids

Syringeverb

spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe

Syringe

A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel. The plunger can be linearly pulled and pushed along the inside of the tube, allowing the syringe to take in and expel liquid or gas through a discharge orifice at the front (open) end of the tube.