The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.
Used in a Sentence
pincushion
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pincushion.
Editorial note
A spear in a haystack is still harder to find than a needle in a pincushion.
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Quick take
The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pincushion gathered in one view.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pincushion.
noun
The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.
noun
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
noun
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
noun
A coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
Example sentences
A spear in a haystack is still harder to find than a needle in a pincushion.
You can sit on a pincushion filled very densely with needles equally well as a solid wooden chair.
This also looks closer to the original with some shaders to add pincushion distortion and Gaussian scanlines.
Some corrections can be done in software these days (barrel/pincushion distortion, chromatic aberration), but not all.
In this configuration the power delivery must be via the pincushion, through some of the pins.
Interestingly, modern photography suites offer both correction of effects of lenses (e.g vignetting and pincushion) and chromatic aberration in silicon.
Even the best and most expensive professional lenses have some barrel and or pincushion distortion.
Fancier displays have even more adjustments for other geometric corrections like pincushion and keystone.
None of the examples highlight barrel/pincushion distortion or the like as an offender.
Rectiliearity (the absence of barrel or pincushion distortion) is also easier to achieve.
Instead we had a ring made from a large pincushion citrine and two medium-sized peridots.
Ortiz, while a lovely pincushion, is the symptom not the problem.
Quote examples
It's more like "try to find the needle in a pincushion" became "try to find the spear in the haystack", since icons/tiles can be much larger if you want.
I was pretty stoked despite the weird pincushion effects (maybe side effect of being imported from at least 100° of longitude away??) because our apartment’s only TV was a 13” which looked funny in a comically big living room.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pincushion in a sentence?
A spear in a haystack is still harder to find than a needle in a pincushion.
What does pincushion mean?
The names of various plants with flowers or other parts resembling a pincushion.
What part of speech is pincushion?
pincushion is commonly used as noun.