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Definition: Needle |
NeedleNoun1. As of a conifer. 2. A slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument. 3. A sharp pointed implement (usually steel). 4. A stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record. Verb1. Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks". 2. Prick with a needle; in sewing or embroidering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "needle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Bible | Needle used only in the proverb, "to pass through a needle's eye" (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the "eye of a needle" in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Ex. 28:39; 26:36; Judg. 5:30). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A timber set on stream bed or weir crest or regulating gate to close an opening for the control of water; it may be either vertical or inclined; a form of stop plank. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | In manual data processing, a needle or probe passed through holes or notches to assist in the sorting or selection of cards. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A selecting device to be pushed through the pre-punched holes of punched cards thereby selectinG THE CARDS CONTAINING THE SEARCHED ITEMS BEING PUNCHED AT THIS HOLE WHEN TURNING THE PILE. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To use a needle in your dream, is a warning of approaching affliction, in which you will suffer keenly the loss of sympathy, which is rightfully yours. To dream of threading a needle, denotes that you will be burdened with the care of others than your own household. To look for a needle, foretells useless worries. To find a needle, foretells that you will have friends who will appreciate you. To break one, signifies loneliness and poverty. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | The portion of a phonograph pickup that follows the modulation of a record groove and transmits the resulting mechanical motions to the transducer element of the pickup for conversion to corresponding AF signals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | An instrument used for intermeshing needle loops; there is normally one needle for each needle wale. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Needle To hit the needle. Hit the right nail on the head, to make a perfect hit. A term in archery, equal to hitting the bull's-eye. Eye of a needle. (See Eye.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | An implant in the form of a thin metallic cylinder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A piece of copper or brass about 0.5 in (1.3 cm) in diameter and 3 ft or 4 ft (0.9 m to 1.2 m) long, pointed at one end, and turned into a handle at the other, tapering from the handle to the point. It is thrust into a charge of blasting powder in a borehole, and while in this position the borehole is tamped solid, preferably with moist clay. The needle is then withdrawn carefully, leaving a straight passageway through the tamping for the miner's squib to shoot or fire the charge b. A timber set on end to close an opening for the control of water; it may be either vertical or inclined; a form of stop plank c. A small metal rod for making the touchhole in the powder used for blasting. d. A hitch cut in the side rock to receive the end of a timber.e. A needle-shaped or acicular mineral crystal. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | KNIGHT OF THE THIMBLE, or NEEDLE. A taylor or stay-maker. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A needle is a long, slender, object with a pointed tip, usually made of metal, used in sewing, injecting or extracting liquids, indicating on a dial, or playing back music recorded on a vinyl disk.The format of the needle varies according to its purpose. Sewing needles have a hole in the shaft to carry thread, either at the pointed tip for machine sewing needles, or at the non-pointed end, for hand sewing. Hand sewing needles have different names depending on their purpose, such as sharps, betweens, ballpoint, embroidery, leather, beading, chenille, upholstery, and tapestry.
See also:
- hypodermic needle
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Needle."
Synonyms: NeedleSynonyms: acerate leaf (n), phonograph needle (n), goad (v), nettle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb: |
Cunning | Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff. |
Direction | Noun: direction; management, managery; government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance; bossism; legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, reins of government; helm, rudder, needle, compass; guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star; cynosure. |
Impossibility | Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
Observance | Adjective: observant, faithful, true, loyal; honorable; true as the dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole; punctual, punctilious; literal; (exact); as good as one's word. |
Opening | Noun: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot. |
Perforator | Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers. |
Physical Sensibility | Phrase: "the touch'd needle trembles to the pole". |
Probity | Constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant"; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible. |
Sharpness | Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca. |
Cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; sharpened; Verb: set | |
Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred. | |
Uncertainty | Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission. |
Veracity | Adverb: truly; (really); in plain words; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth; (affirmation). |
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Screenplays | All of my piercings, sixteen places on my body, all of them done with a needle. Five in each ear, one through the nipple on my left breast, one through my right nostril, one through my left eyebrow, one in my lip, one in my clit and I wear a stud in my tongue (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) Listen up, needle brain, Buffy and I have taken out four of your cronies, not to mention your girlfriend (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Andhe needs it drawn slowly by a large pointy needle. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) This isn't a needle in a haystack, this is a needle in Kansas (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | I don't need no needle (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Be as sharp as a needle that's twisting your brain (If I Wanted To; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) Careless needle. (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal) To find a job is like a haystack needle (Living for the City; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) Yeah I'm like the needle, needle and spoon (Desire; performing artist: U2) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Panic in Needle Park (1971) Silver Needle in the Sky (1954) Or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa Panther Woman of the Needle Trades (1931) The Devil's Needle (1916) Poison Needle (1914) | |
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 | Shows picture of patient on examining table getting needle inserted for a bone marrow tap. Mother shown with patient. Credit: Bill Branson (Photographer). |  | Adult black female breast visible. Physician's hands are seen performing a needle biopsy to determine nature of lump either fluid-filled cyst or solid tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Needle aspiration biopsy of lung showing yeasts of Histoplasma capsulatum. Methenamine silver stain. Credit: CDC. |  | Seattle at nightfall, from top of Space Needle. Credit: CDC. |
 | In the West Maui Mountains near the Iao Needle. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | View of the Iao Needle in the West Maui Mountains. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The NOAA Ship SURVEYOR off Seattle with the Space Needle in the background. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | 4H summer camper works on a piece of needle work. Credit: USDA. |
 | Laboratory technician Ann Darling pipeting serum for radioimmunoassay of pine needle poisoning which causes abortions in cattle. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |  | Stipa columbiana sitecolumbia needle grass. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |
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| "Space Needle at Night" by Heather Laidlaw Commentary: "Some neon by the Space Needle in Seattle." | "Space Needle" by Sarah Benton Commentary: "Space Needle from a different view." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Cervantes | As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert explored these gardens and these grounds, as if he were searching for a needle. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A long fine needle of the shivered glass pierced her heart |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The fat man pumped the gasoline and the needle turned on the pump dial, recording the amount |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting needle. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me. |
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Health | Transurethral Needle Ablation. (references) | |
Situation - Laboratory infection by accidental stick of contaminated needle. (references) | ||
To drain the abscess, the doctor uses a needle and a small tube called a catheter. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Needle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.01% of the time. "Needle" is used about 1,101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.01% | 1,046 | 7,128 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.09% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.09% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "needle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Needle | Last name | 130 | 55,252 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "needle": acupuncture needle ♦ Adam's needle ♦ as sharp as a needle ♦ Babcock's needle ♦ be on the needle ♦ Cleopatra's needle ♦ compass needle ♦ compound needle ♦ crochet needle ♦ darning needle ♦ Declension of the needle ♦ declination of the needle ♦ devil's darning needle ♦ Dip of the needle ♦ Dipping needle ♦ disposable needle ♦ embroidery needle ♦ engraving needle ♦ Etching needle ♦ eye of a needle ♦ eye of the needle ♦ Fashioning needle ♦ fir needle ♦ Fissure needle ♦ get the needle ♦ gramophone needle ♦ hand knitting needle ♦ hypodermic needle ♦ hypotermic needle ♦ ice needle ♦ Inclination of the needle ♦ injection needle ♦ knitting needle ♦ look for a needle in a bottle of hay ♦ look for a needle in a haystack ♦ look for a needle in a haystrack ♦ look for a needle in haystack ♦ Lophodermella needle casts ♦ magnetic needle ♦ Needle acupuncture ♦ needle and thread ♦ needle bar ♦ needle bath ♦ needle beam ♦ needle bearing ♦ needle biopsy ♦ needle blight ♦ needle bush ♦ needle cast ♦ needle craft ♦ needle fall ♦ needle for lacework ♦ needle for stitching ♦ needle furze ♦ needle gun ♦ needle hammer ♦ needle holder ♦ needle hole ♦ needle ice ♦ needle in a bottle of hay ♦ needle lace ♦ needle loom ♦ needle match ♦ needle ore ♦ needle palm ♦ needle point ♦ needle roller ♦ needle rush ♦ Needle Sharing ♦ needle shell ♦ needle spar ♦ needle spike rush ♦ needle telegraph ♦ needle tier ♦ needle time ♦ needle valve ♦ needle wood ♦ needle zeolite ♦ netting needle ♦ on the needle ♦ pack needle ♦ packing needle ♦ pass the thread through the eye of the needle ♦ peter's needle ♦ phonograph needle ♦ pine needle ♦ pink needle ♦ point of a needle ♦ ponderosa pine needle miner ♦ poultry needle ♦ prick with a needle ♦ sea needle ♦ sewing machine needle ♦ sewing needle ♦ sharp as a needle ♦ Shepherd's needle ♦ Tape needle ♦ the needle ♦ thread a needle ♦ Thread needle ♦ thread the needle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "needle": needle-addict, needle-beds, needle-book, needle-case, needle-exchange, Needle-Exchange Programs, needle-fine, needle-fish, needle-grass, needle-gun, needle-heads, needle-knife, needle-knofe, needle-leaves, needle-like, needle-pistol, needle-point, Needle-pointed, needle-points, needle-shaped, needle-sharing, needle-sharp, needle-slim, needle-tailed, needle-thin, needle-thins, needle-tips, needle-type, needle-valve seat, needle-weed, needle-woman, needle-work, needle-worked. | |
Ending with "needle": every-needle, pine-needle. | |
Containing "needle": curved needle-nosed pliers, dip-needle circuit, fine-needle aspiration, full-needle-rib, Pine-needle wool. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
seattle space needle | 1,124 | needle bearing | 53 |
space needle | 623 | american needle | 52 |
needle | 542 | needle doctor | 51 |
needle ca | 381 | silver needle | 51 |
knitting needle | 156 | needle point | 49 |
tattoo needle | 110 | felt needle | 44 |
phonograph needle | 107 | biopsy needle | 43 |
piercing needle | 84 | nordic needle | 43 |
eye of the needle | 82 | needle tatting | 43 |
pin and needle | 78 | cleopatras needle | 40 |
needle valve | 74 | space needle picture | 37 |
turn table needle | 72 | felting needle | 37 |
needle california | 70 | pine needle basket | 37 |
pine needle | 64 | record needle | 36 |
record player needle | 60 | sewing machine needle | 36 |
16 31g 5 bd needle pen x | 59 | space needle restaurant | 35 |
acupuncture needle | 59 | needle gun | 31 |
1 2 29g bd needle pen x | 58 | sewing needle | 30 |
syringe needle | 55 | fine needle aspiration | 30 |
hypodermic needle | 53 | highway needle | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "needle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zë me pe (darn, sew), shigjetë (arrow, dart, hand, index, indicator, missile, pointer, shaft, spire, steel, steeple), rrobaqepës (cabbage, clothier, fashioner, modiste, Sartor, seamstress, snipper, stitcher, tailor), qep (dry up, hold one's tongue, ligature, seam, sew, sew on, stitch, tab, tailor), penetroj, majë (aiguille, alp, apex, cusp, height, nab, naze, Neb, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof), halë (bone), grep (chela, click, fish rod, fishing rod, hook, key, tenterhook, tenterhooks), gjilpëre, gjilpërëz, gjilpërë busulle, gjilpërë (injection, pin, pintle), depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, soak, thread, worm), akrep (hand, pointer, scorpion). (various references) | |
Arabic | إبرة. (various references) | |
Basque | jostorratz. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обелиск (obelisk), игла (aiguille, pin, prick, pricker, quill, spine), игла за плетене (knitting needle), игловиден кристал, подстрекавам (abet, egg on, fanaticize, incite, instigate, key up, provoke, set on, sow, string up, suborn, work up), промушвам с игла, бродирам (embroider, work), заострен кристал, игличка, нервирам (fluster, piss off), стрелка (arrow, cursor, finger, hand, index, indicator, pointer, rise, shunt, switch), остра готическа кула, временна подпора, конзолна греда (outrigger), кука за плетене (knitting needle), шия (cervix, neck, sew, stitch, throat), шиш за плетене, шпил (capstan, spire, steeple), указател (cursor, detector, indicator, pointer, register), нерви (jitters, needles, nerves). (various references) | |
Catalan | agulla de cap (pin), agulla. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鍼 , 針 (injection, pin), 针 (Needles, stitch), 縫針 . (various references) | |
Czech | střelka, ruèièka (finger, pointer), popíchnout, poštvat (incite), pletací jehlice (knitting needle), jehlièka, jehla (spire, stylus), háèkovací jehlice, dopálit (enrage, madden). (various references) | |
Danish | nål (cannon, Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs, nail, pin, point, sharp, spike), knappenål (pin). (various references) | |
Dutch | naald (pin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nadlo, pinglo (pin), kudrilo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nál (pin). (various references) | |
Farsi | سوزن سرنگ وگرامافون وغیره , سوزن دوزی کردن , سوزن (Stylus), طعنه زدن (Jeer, Jest, Quip, Taunt), اذیت کردن (Annoy, Badger, Bedevil, Grieve, Grind, Harass, Hock, Hurt, Indemnify, Offend, Pester, Tease, Worry), باسوزن تزریق کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | neula (pin), neulanen. (various references) | |
French | aiguille (Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs). (various references) | |
Frisian | nulle, nuddel, spjelde (pin). (various references) | |
German | Nadel (brooch, hook, pin, spicule, stylus). (various references) | |
Greek | βελόνα (pin, point). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחט (pin, spine), לתפור במחט, לעקוץ (be sarcastic, bite, catch, dig, sting), להרגיז (aggravate, annoy, displease, enrage, incense, madden, miff, molest, offend, peeve, provoke, rile, ruffle, spite, vex), לדקור (prick, stab, stick, thrust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tû (pin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jarum (bodkin). (various references) | |
Italian | ago (Angola, blade, cannon, Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs, nail, pin, point, reproducing stylus, Republic of Angola, sharp, speed-change lane, spike, stylus, taper, tongue), puntina (drawing pin, pin, stylus, thumbtack). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鍼 (acupuncture), 針 (fish hook, hand, pointer), ナパーム弾 (big-headed, caller ID, closest to pin, egotist, knee, knee-high socks, knee-length, knowledge, knowledge engineering, licence plate, NAFTA, Namibia, Nanking, Napa Valley, napalm bomb, naphtha, Naphthalin, napkin, Naples, napoleon, napolitain, narcism, Narcisse, narcissism, narcissist, narcist, narodniki, narration, narrator, narrow silhouette, narrow-band, narrowcasting, National Leaque, navigator, Navstar, near pin, near-miss, neat, need, needs, Nicaragua, nice, Nichrome, Nielsen, niobium, nonsense, nonsense comedy, nourish, nourishing cream, nourishment, number, number display, number eight, number one, number plate, numbering, numbering machine, nymphe, stuck-up person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ニードル , はり (a beam, acupuncture, crystal, fish hook, glass, hand, pointer, post, stretch). (various references) | |
Korean | 바늘 (Needles). (various references) | |
Malay | jarum. (various references) | |
Manx | guinney (pain, shoot, shoot of pain, sting, wound, wounding). (various references) | |
Maya | huppub. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nål, knappenål (pin). (various references) | |
Occitan | agulha. (various references) | |
Papiamen | hangua, angua. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedlenay.(various references) | |
Polish | szpilka (pin). (various references) | |
Portuguese | agulha (broach, compass, point, roasting-jack, spire, spur), alfinete (hairpin, kingpin, pin). (various references) | |
Romanian | vârf ascuţit (pin, Spike), undrea, stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), sãgeatã (arrow, lash, Reed, shaft, sting), pisc ascuţit, indicator (finger, guide, indicator, indicatory, sign, telltale), coase cu acul, bate la cap (bother, Chevy, nag, nagnag, peeve, pester, plague), andrea (knitting needle), ac de tricotat (knitting needle), ac de cusut, ac (goad, pinnacle, spindle, spur, sting, style, switch), îndemna (advise, charge, court, egg, exhort, goad, hunch, impel, incite, induce, prick, prod, prompt, punch, push, rouse, set smb. doing smth., spank, spur, stimulate, urge). (various references) | |
Romany | ey. (various references) | |
Russian | игла (aiguille, quill, spine). (various references) | |
Scottish | snathad. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadirkivati (badinage, chaff, josh, kid, put on, rag, rib, tease, twit), podbadati (egg on, goad), kazaljka (mantissa), isprovocirati (get the needle), igleni, igla (aiguille). (various references) | |
Shona | tsono. (various references) | |
Spanish | aguja (broach, cannula, garfish, Marlin, needlefish, pipefish, pointer, sea needle, shaft, spire, steeple, stylus, switch), alfiler (pin), chuta (works). (various references) | |
Swahili | sindano. (various references) | |
Swedish | nål (indicator, pin, stylus), barr (fir needle, ingot, parallel bars), synål, stift (Brad, canonry, diocese, Flint, peg, pencil, pin, pins, style, tack). (various references) | |
Tagalog | karáyom. (various references) | |
Thai | เย็บ (sew, sew up), เข็ม (badge), ยั่วยุ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tığ (awl, crochet needle, knitting needle), sinirlendirmek (aggravate, anger, annoy, bugger, disconcert, exacerbate, fret, get smb.'s dander up, get smb.'s shirt out, give the willies, grate, incense, irritate, jangle smb.'s nerves, make angry, put smb. out of temper, rile, rough the wrong way, ruffle smb.'s temper, stimulate, string up, unnerve, unstring), ibre (cursor, finger, hand, index, pointer), iğnelemek (ironize, pin, pin up, prickle, quip, stick), iğne ile delmek, iğne (brooch, injection, jab, pin, pintle, pointer, prick, shot, spicule, spine, sting, stinger), enjektör (injection syringe, injector, syringe), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), şiş (blown up, broach, bulge, concretion, knitting needle, protuberant, rising, roasting jack, skewer, spit, swell, swelling, tumefaction, turgescence, turgid, wart), alkol derecesini artırmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | iссe. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гострокінцева вершина, прибрехати, прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish), проколювати голкою, протискуватися через щось, під'юджувати, бескид (cliff), зашивати (sew up), нацьковувати (halloo, hound, play off, sick), нудьга (bore, boredom, damp, distemper, dullness, ennui, insipidity, insipidness, monotony, mope, tedium, yearn, yearning), обеліск (obelisk), дражнити (badger, badinage, bait, banter, chaff, pick on, quiz, rag, start on, taunt, tease, vex), говорити уїдливо, стрілка (point, pointer, spit), гравірувальна голка, кріпити пиво спиртом, крючок для плетіння, шити (build, sew, stitch, tailor), шпиль (fronton, gable, spire, steeple, top), хандра (grouch, grumps), хвоя, роздратовувати (acerbate, anger, discontent, dislike, embitter, exacerbate, fash, fret, frump, goad, huff, irk, nettle, nip, peeve, rile, terrify, wear on), роздратування (anger, annoyance, chafe, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, peeve, petulance, petulancy, pique, provocation, teen), спиця (arm, radius, spoke), голка (prickle, spine). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái kim. (various references) | |
Welsh | nodwydd. (various references) | |
Yucatec | puuts'. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. bulug, dalla, gu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acariae, acus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eukopwteron gar estin kamhlon dia trumaliaV rafidoV eiselqein h plousion eiV thn basileian tou qeou eiselqein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Facilius est enim camelum per foramen acus transire quam divitem intrare in regnum Dei |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eaðelicor mæg se olfend gan þurh are nædle eage: þonne se welega on godes rice; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For it is liyter a camel to passe thorou a nedlis iye, than a riche man to entre in to the kyngdom of God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | It is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles eye then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Kay masayon pa sa kamelyo paglusot sa mata sa dagum kay sa usa ka dato pagsulod sa gingharian sa Dios." |
| Croatian | Lakše je devi kroz uši iglene nego bogatašu u kraljevstvo Božje." |
| Danish | thi det er lettere for en Kamel at gå igennem et Nåleøje end for en rig at gå ind i Guds Rige." |
| Dutch | Want het is lichter, dat een kemel ga door het oog van een naald, dan dat een rijke in het Koninkrijk Gods inga. |
| Finnish | Helpompi on kamelin käydä neulansilmän läpi kuin rikkaan päästä Jumalan valtakuntaan." |
| French | Car il est plus facile à un chameau de passer par le trou d`une aiguille qu`à un riche d`entrer dans le royaume de Dieu. |
| German | Es ist leichter, daß ein Kamel gehe durch ein Nadelöhr, denn daß ein Reicher in das Reich Gottes komme. |
| Haitian Creole | L'ap pi fasil pou gwo bèt yo rele chamo a pase nan je yon zegwi pase pou yon rich antre nan peyi kote Bondye Wa a. |
| Hungarian | Mert könnyebb a tevének a tû fokán átmenni, hogynem a gazdagnak az Isten országába bejutni. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lebih gampang seekor unta masuk lubang jarum, daripada seorang kaya masuk Dunia Baru Allah." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lebih mudahlah seekor unta masuk ke lubang jarum daripada seorang yang kaya masuk ke dalam kerajaan Allah." |
| Latvian | Vieglâk kamielim iziet caur adatas aci, nekâ bagâtam ieiet Dieva valstîbâ. |
| Maori | Erangi hoki te haere o te kamera ra te kowhao o te ngira e takoto noa ana, he whakauaua rawa ia te tomo o te tangata taonga ki roto ki te rangatiratanga o te Atua. |
| Norwegian | For det er lettere for en kamel å gå gjennem et nåleøie enn for en rik å gå inn i Guds rike. |
| Portuguese | Pois é mais fácil um camelo passar pelo fundo duma agulha, do que entrar um rico no reino de Deus. |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq mai lesne este sq treacq o cqmilq prin urechea acului, deckt sq intre un om bogat kn Kmpqrqyia lui Dumnezeu.`` |
| Shuar | Kamiriuka, uunt ana nu, auja jiin wayatin itiurchataiti. Tura shuar Kuítrin ti Enentáimtana nu Yus akupeamunam pachiinkiatin Nú nankaamas itiurchataiti." Tu Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Porque más fácil le es a un camello pasar por el ojo de una aguja, que a un rico entrar en el reino de Dios. |
| Swahili | Naam, ni rahisi zaidi kwa ngamia kupita katika tundu la sindano, kuliko tajiri kuingia katika Ufalme wa Mungu." |
| Swedish | Ja, det är lättare för en kamel att komma in genom ett nålsöga, än för den som är rik att komma in i Guds rike." |
| Uma | Mojoli-pi hama'a unta ntara hi wulou' jaru ngkai tauna to mo'ua' mengkoru hi Alata'ala bona Hi'a jadi' Magau' -ra." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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