needle

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This needle jiggles up and down and left and right, hence the two channels in stereo.

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the leaf of a conifer

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of needle gathered in one view.

noun

the leaf of a conifer

noun

a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

noun

a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for needle.

noun

the leaf of a conifer

noun

a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

noun

a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

noun

a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

verb

goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"

verb

prick with a needle

Example sentences

This needle jiggles up and down and left and right, hence the two channels in stereo.

We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes.

To "read" the signal from a record groove a needle is dragged a needle through a v shaped groove.

If we want to make change, we need to move the needle on the public's perception of crime.

As time goes by, slowly needle away at her confidence, until she feels dependent on you.

So you do what you can to thread the needle and make as many of the right customers as happy as possible.

I imagine a doctor drilling into my skeleton and using a large needle to suck out the gooey stuff that makes my blood.

She could spend a maddening four years not moving the needle at Yahoo rather than another company or a startup of her own.

Yes, its a bigger needle, that they insert into your hip bone after administering local anesthetic.

Then, through a process called apheresis, a donor's blood is removed through a needle in one arm and passed through a machine that separates out the blood-forming cells.

Essentially you have a low profit-per-sale product that has a fixed customer acquisition cost, and the margins are so tiny that you're threading a needle.

The last essay I read before this one suggested --- in agreement with the conventional wisdom of VC's --- that a company needs to be Dropbox-successful to move the needle for YC.

At the end of the day, you're still trying to beat the averages, but you're working with a much smaller number of opportunities, so wins and losses move the needle in a big way. I think this is a significant incentive for small shops and independent devs to avoid the enterprise space.

This is interesting because it means that instead of a traditional blood draw with a needle and vial requiring a trained phlebotomist and healthy veins, physicians can use blood collected from a finger stick -- a far less invasive and painful procedure.

Somewhat as in government, low- and mid-level contracting didn't excite anyone in management, who were focused on issues that really "moved the needle", like securing and overseeing new exploration deals, not how much someone spent on a piece of equipment that wasn't even in the 6-figure range anyway.