Sword vs. Needle
Difference Between Sword and Needle
Swordnoun
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.
Needlenoun
A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.Swordnoun
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
Needlenoun
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
Swordnoun
(tarot) A card of this suit.
Needlenoun
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.Swordnoun
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Needlenoun
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.Swordnoun
(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.
Needlenoun
A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
Swordnoun
a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
Needlenoun
}} The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
Needlenoun
A text string that is searched for within another string.
Needleverb
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
Needleverb
(transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.Needleverb
(transitive) To form in the shape of a needle.
to needle crystalsNeedlenoun
as of a conifer
Needlenoun
a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
Needlenoun
a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
Needlenoun
a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
Needleverb
goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;
He needled her with his sarcastic remarksNeedleverb
prick with a needle
