Needle
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Needle or Needles may refer to:
Sewing and needlework
- Sewing needle, long slender object with a pointed tip
- Needle guard, piece of a sewing machine that prevents the user from sewing their finger
- Needlework, a term for textile arts using needles
- Needlepoint, a form of embroidery
- Knitting needle, long stick or rod used as a tool in the manufacture of hand knitted fabric
- Needle lace, handmade lace
- Upholstery needle, needle used for upholstery
Body manipulation
- Body piercing needle, a needle used for body piercing
- Tattoo needle, a needle used to tattoo skin
- Needle play, a form of play piercing
Botany
- Needle Bush, a plant of the genus Acacia
- Needle Palm, the sole member of the genus Rhapidophyllum in the palm family Arecaceae
- Pine needle, adult leaf of a pine
Geography and geology
- Needles (Black Hills), granite pillars located in South Dakota
- Needles, California, a small city in the United States
- Needle Mountains (Colorado), subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern Colorado
- The Needles, geologic formation off the Isle of Wight
- The Needles, the southeast district of Canyonlands National Park
- Cleopatra's Needle, trio of obelisks in London, Paris, and New York City
- Crestone Needle, one of the "fourteeners" (mountains of 14,000+ feet) of Colorado
- Space Needle, landmark of Seattle
Mathematics
- Buffon's needle, problem in probability
- Kakeya needle problem, problem in mathematics
Medicine
- Acupuncture needle, needle used for acupuncture
- Hypodermic needle, hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject substances into the body
- Needle exchange program, exchange program for hypodermic needles
- Needle remover, device that physically removes a needle from a syringe
- Pins and needles or paresthesia, sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect
- Surgical needle, needle with holes or eyes which are supplied to the hospital separate from their suture thread
- Tuohy needle, hollow needle suitable for inserting epidural catheters
Music
- Gramophone needle, needle used to play back sound on gramophone records
- Needle drop, technique used by DJs
- Needle time, a 1960s attempt to limit music played over radio in the UK
- The Needles, a four-piece band from Aberdeen in the late 1990s
- Sleep on Needles, 2002 album by Sondre Lerche
- "Needle in the Hay", a song from the 1995 album Elliott Smith by Elliott Smith
- "Needle", a song from the 1991 album All for One by The Screaming Jets
- "Needles", a song from the 2002 album Toxicity by System of a Down
Literature
- Needle (novel), a science fiction novel by Hal Clement
Sports
- Needle, an inverted cheerleading stunt: see List of cheerleading stunts
Zoology
- Needle dogfish, small, little-known deepwater shark
- Needles (horse), American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
- Needle-clawed bushbaby, two species in the genus Euoticus
People named Needle or Needles
- Dan Needles, playwright behind the popular Wingfield series which has played across Canada for many years
- Edward Needles Hallowell, United States Army officer
- Jimmy Needles, American basketball coach best known for being the United States' first Olympic basketball coach
- Nadel, German surname meaning needle
Fictional people
- Jimmy Needles, character in the video game TimeSplitters 2
- Needle (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
- Douglas J. Needles from Back to the Future Part II and Part III
Other
- 3 Needles, 2005 dramatic film which was directed by Thom Fitzgerald
- Eye of a needle, aphorism used in the religious texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- Needle dam, a weir designed to maintain the level or flow of a river through the use of thin "needles" of wood
- Needle valve, a type of valve having a small orifice and a threaded, needle-like plunger
- A measuring needle, an indicator on a measuring instrument or dial (measurement)
- "The Needler", a weapon used by the Covenant in Bungie's Halo: Combat Evolved
See also
- Microperforation
- Eye of the Needle (disambiguation)
- Needlefish (disambiguation)
- Needle gun (disambiguation)
- Needles and Pins (disambiguation)