Needle

(noun.) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel).

(noun.) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument.

(verb.) goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; 'He needled her with his sarcastic remarks'.

(verb.) prick with a needle.

杜威手打

• Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Bean for a sewing machine in which the needle was stationary, and the cloth was gathered in crimps or folds and forced over the stationary needle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mademoiselle, like most Belgian ladies, was specially skilful with her needle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If you please I want to learn needle-work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A needle and thread we don't know how to use. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Thus, if the two extreme needles were deflected inwards, one towards the left and the other towards the right, they would point to the letter _A_ at the top of the rhomb. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This was effected by having the twenty-six letters painted on a board, and concealed from view by a number of small paper screens, which were attached to magnetic needles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The rhomb was divided into thirty-six equal parts by ten cross lines, and the needles were placed at the points where the lines intersected, as shown in the diagram. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The Romans, for example, never had needles comparable to those of the Magdalenian epoch. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He rubbed his elbows against the pine needles but it was not the same. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It consisted of five magnetic needles, ranged side by side on a horizontal line that formed the diameter of a rhomb. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This part, however, is very small in some, and very great in others, A master tailor requires no other instruments of trade but a parcel of needles. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

校对:罗伯特