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Definitions: Darning Needle |
Darning NeedleNoun1. A long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread. 2. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Darning NeedleSynonyms: devil's darning needle (n), dragonfly (n), embroidery needle (n), mosquito hawk (n), sewing needle (n), skeeter hawk (n), snake doctor (n), snake feeder (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Darning Needle |
| English words defined with "darning needle": devil's darning needle, Devil's darning-needle ♦ embroidery needle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "darning needle": button-breaker operator ♦ CALENDER-MACHINE OPERATOR, cloth calender ♦ SURGICAL-ELASTIC KNITTER, HAND FRAME ♦ tape calender. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "darning needle": devil's darning needle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
darning needle | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "darning needle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pilivesë (devil's darning-needle, dragonfly), gjilpërë e trashë për të mbushur vrime. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | водно конче (dragonfly), игла за кърпене. (various references) | |
Czech | látací jehla. (various references) | |
Danish | stoppenaal. (various references) | |
Dutch | stopnaald. (various references) | |
French | aiguille repriser. (various references) | |
German | Stopfnadel. (various references) | |
Hungarian | stoppolótû. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jarum jelujur. (various references) | |
Italian | ago da rammendo. (various references) | |
Manx | snaid gharnail. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arningday eedlenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | agulha para cerzir, agulha de cerzir. (various references) | |
Romanian | ac de stopat. (various references) | |
Russian | стрекоза (devil's darning-needle, dragonfly, dragon-fly, flying adder), штопальная игла (darner). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | igla za krpljenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | aguja de zurcir. (various references) | |
Swedish | stoppnål. (various references) | |
Turkish | örgü iğnesi (darner). (various references) | |
Ukranian | штопальна голка (blunt), бабка (dragon-fly, grandma, grandmother, knucklebone, pastern). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r" | |
-3 letters: endangered. | |
-4 letters: dandering, deadening, deleading, deraigned, endearing, engirdled, engrailed, engrained, glandered, grenadine, laddering, realigned, reddening, relending, renegaded. | |
-5 letters: algerine, dandling, danegeld, dangered, deadener, deadlier, deadline, derailed, deranged, dragline, dreading, endanger, endeared, engender, engilded, engineer, engirded, engirdle, enlarged, gandered, gardened, gendered, inlander, ladening, learning, lingered, needling, raddling, readding, reddling, redenied, redialed, redlined, reedling, regained, regilded, renailed, renegade. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 72 6E 69 6E 67 4E 65 65 64 6C 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001110 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a r n i n g   N e e d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0072 006E 0069 006E 0067 004E 0065 0065 0064 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386784807580732487171707871 |
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