NEEDLE

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needle I. substantiv

1. ac;

through the eye of a needle prin urechile acului;

(prov.) to look for a needle in a haystack / in a bundle of hay a căuta acul în carul cu fân;

(as) sharp as a needle ager / ascuţit la minte, cu mintea vioaie;

to thread a needle a băga aţă în ac.

2. ac de tricotat, igliţă, andrea (de tricotat);

crochet needle croşet;

netting needle navetă (pentru făcut o plasă).

3. ac (de busolă, de aparat telegrafic sau de alte aparate cu cadran).

4. (med.) instrument chirurgical cu un vârf ascuţit.

5. (bot.) ac (de brad etc.).

6. vârf ascuţit (de munte), pisc.

7. (arhit.) săgeată, vârf ascuţit (al construcţiilor în stil gotic); obelisc;

Cleopatra's needle obeliscul Cleopatrei.

8. (chim., mineral.) cristal în formă de ac.

9. (constr.) grindă (folosită ca proptea în lucrări de subzidire).

10. (tehn.) ac de rulment.

11. (tehn.) dorn de perforat.

12. (hidr.) con de închidere (a vanei).

13. the needle (sl.) nervozitate, iritabilitate, proastă dispoziţie; emoţie; trac;

to have the needle a avea trac;

to get the needle a-i sări ţandăra.

needle II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a coase; a împunge cu acul.

2. (med.) a opera (o cataractă).

3. (constr.) a subzidi, a arma, a întări, a propti cu grinzi (un zid, un mal).

4. (fam.) a sâcâi, a enerva, a întărâta.

5. (sl.) a instiga, a împinge.

6. (amer. fam.) a alcooliza, a adăuga alcool la.

◊ to needle one's way a-şi croi drum, a se strecura.

needle II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se strecura, a se furişa.

2. (mineral.) a se cristaliza în formă de ace.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then, a special wide needle is pushed into the bone.

(Bone marrow aspiration, NCI Dictionary)

Hans takes the needle, sticks it into a hay-cart, and follows the cart home.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a single needle free injection unit.

(Needle Free Injection Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

And then she stopped in her work, and looked at me, with her needle drawn out to its thread's length.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

How cheery, too, to see at one side of the shining grate my father with his pipe and his merry red face, and on the other my mother with her fingers ever turning and darting with her knitting-needles!

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A procedure in which a thin needle or tube is put into the abdomen to remove fluid from the peritoneal cavity (the space within the abdomen that contains the intestines, the stomach, and the liver).

(Paracentesis, NCI Dictionary)

It was well for all that this peaceful time was given them as preparation for the sad hours to come, for by-and-by, Beth said the needle was 'so heavy', and put it down forever.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Gretel presents Hans with a needle, Hans says: “Goodbye, Gretel.” “Goodbye, Hans.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

After they had travelled along a little way, they met a needle and a pin walking together along the road: and the needle cried out, Stop, stop! and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way, and such dirty walking they could not get on at all: he told them that he and his friend, the pin, had been at a public-house a few miles off, and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was; he begged therefore that the travellers would be so kind as to give them a lift in their carriage.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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