The word "needle" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that can be used to refer to a thin, pointed piece of metal used for sewing, drawing thread through fabric, injecting medicine, etc. Example sentence: I need to find a needle in order to finish my sewing project.
Perhaps they are a new form of direct action, carried out with a needle in the changing rooms – or even by a mole on the inside?
Nick has asked one of the two nurses working beside him to curl Alice up into a little ball, tucking her legs up under her tummy so he can push a needle into her tiny spinal cord.
But should researchers require actual tissue from the animal, they can use a hollow needle fired from a crossbow.
I have been making many sketches and regret that I cannot draw every needle".
Obama has tugged at the needle of our moral compasses several times with soundbites loaded with ethical ordnance.
(A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair).
On paper, it couldn't have been simpler – you line up a piece of leather with the sole, thread your needle and sew through pre-pressed holes – but I hadn't braced myself for how utterly laborious the job would be.
They had "the appearance of an upheaved, and subsequently ruptured mass of compact grey columnar Basalt, rising suddenly into needle-shaped pinnacles, which arc apparently ready for disintegration by the first disturbing cause, either gales of wind or earthquake".
Electrospinning works by connecting a needle-like spinneret to a high-voltage power source and releasing a charged liquid from it towards an earthed collector plate.
A team led by Hugo Guterman, a robotics expert, has built a prototype device that uses ultrasound, machine vision and a robotic needle-dispenser to make placing a central venous catheter a push-button affair.The operator lays the wireless device on a patient's arm, leg or neck and views an ultrasound image on a nearby computer screen.
One, for example, allows the police to close down needle-exchange programmes.
