Sword vs. Needle

Sword vs. Needle — Is There a Difference?
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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.
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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.

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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 crystals

Needlenoun

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 remarks

Needleverb

prick with a needle