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Definition: Needlepoint |
NeedlepointNoun1. Lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern. 2. Embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "needlepoint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Needlepoint is a form canvas work created on a mesh canvas. The threads used may be wool, silk, or rarely cotton. Stitches may be plain, covering just one mesh intersection with a single orientation, or fancy, such as bargello. Plain stitches may be worked as basketweave or half cross. Basketweave uses the most wool, but does not distort the rectangular mesh.Finished works may be made into pillows or upholstery, or may be displayed on the wall. Typical mesh counts range from 5 to 18 stitches per running inch.
Needlepoint is valued as a soothing activity that creates durable and attractive objects for domestic use. Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Martin, the actress, were all avid needlepointers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Needlepoint."
Synonym: NeedlepointSynonym: point lace (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: needlepoint lace (european union, industry). |
Crosswords: Needlepoint |
| English words defined with "needlepoint": bargello ♦ gros point ♦ petit point ♦ tent stitch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "needlepoint": argentan lace ♦ Teneriffe lace. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We're dealing with fundamentaliststhe Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic (Robin Williams: Live on Broadway; writing credit: Robin Williams) | |
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| "Needlepoint" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "A needlepoint pillow my mother made." |
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| "Needlepoint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Needlepoint" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "needlepoint": needlepoint lace. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "needlepoint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | връх на игла, остър връх, дантела работена на игла. (various references) | |
German | Nadelspitze (pinpoint). (various references) | |
Italian | punto venezia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedlepointnay.(various references) | |
Russian | вышивка гарусом по канве, острие иглы. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrh igle, goblen (gobelin). (various references) | |
Spanish | punto del aguja. (various references) | |
Swedish | stramaljbroderi. (various references) | |
Thai | ปลายเข็ม. (various references) | |
Turkish | oya işi (point lace), ince uç. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вістря голки, вставна голка, мереживо, плетене спицями. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "needlepoint": needlepoints. (additional references) | |
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"Needlepoint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: needlepoints. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "needlepoint" (pronounced nē"dulpoy'nt) |
| 4 | -p oy' n t | checkpoint, counterpoint, drypoint, endpoint, gunpoint, knifepoint, midpoint, pinpoint, standpoint, viewpoint. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: depletion, diplotene. | |
-3 letters: deletion, deponent, endpoint, entoiled, indolent, lepidote, nonelite, petioled. | |
-4 letters: dentine, deplete, diplont, eloined, endnote, epidote, intoned, lenient, lentoid, leonine, pendent, penlite, pentene, pentode, petiole, piloted, pointed, pontine, potline, tenoned, topline. | |
-5 letters: deepen, delete, denote, dentil, dentin, depone, diploe, dipnet, dipole, donnee, eloped, endite, entoil, etoile, indene, indent, indole, intend, intone, lenten. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: needlepoints. | |
+4 letters: antidevelopment, septendecillion. | |
+5 letters: septendecillions. | |
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