Needle

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Needle or Needles may refer to:

Sewing and needlework

• Sewing needle, long slender object with a pointed tip
• Needle guard, piece of a sewing machine that prevents the user from sewing their finger
• Needlework, a term for textile arts using needles
  • Needlepoint, a form of embroidery
  • Knitting needle, long stick or rod used as a tool in the manufacture of hand knitted fabric
  • Needle lace, handmade lace
• Upholstery needle, needle used for upholstery

Body manipulation

• Body piercing needle, a needle used for body piercing
• Tattoo needle, a needle used to tattoo skin
• Needle play, a form of play piercing

Botany

• Needle Bush, a plant of the genus Acacia
• Needle Palm, the sole member of the genus Rhapidophyllum in the palm family Arecaceae
• Pine needle, adult leaf of a pine

Geography and geology

• Needles (Black Hills), granite pillars located in South Dakota
• Needles, California, a small city in the United States
• Needle Mountains (Colorado), subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern Colorado
• The Needles, geologic formation off the Isle of Wight
• The Needles, the southeast district of Canyonlands National Park
• Cleopatra\'s Needle, trio of obelisks in London, Paris, and New York City
• Crestone Needle, one of the "fourteeners" (mountains of 14,000+ feet) of Colorado
• Space Needle, landmark of Seattle

Mathematics

• Buffon\'s needle, problem in probability
• Kakeya needle problem, problem in mathematics

Medicine

• Acupuncture needle, needle used for acupuncture
• Hypodermic needle, hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject substances into the body
• Needle exchange program, exchange program for hypodermic needles
• Needle remover, device that physically removes a needle from a syringe
• Pins and needles or paresthesia, sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person\'s skin with no apparent long-term physical effect
• Surgical needle, needle with holes or eyes which are supplied to the hospital separate from their suture thread
• Tuohy needle, hollow needle suitable for inserting epidural catheters

Music

• Gramophone needle, needle used to play back sound on gramophone records
• Needle drop, technique used by DJs
• Needle time, a 1960s attempt to limit music played over radio in the UK
• The Needles, a four-piece band from Aberdeen in the late 1990s
• Sleep on Needles, 2002 album by Sondre Lerche
• "Needle in the Hay", a song from the 1995 album Elliott Smith by Elliott Smith
• "Needle", a song from the 1991 album All for One by The Screaming Jets

Sports

• Needle, an inverted cheerleading stunt: see List of cheerleading stunts

Zoology

• Needle dogfish, small, little-known deepwater shark
• Needles (horse), American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
• Needle-clawed bushbaby, two species in the genus Euoticus

People named Needle or Needles

• Dan Needles, playwright behind the popular Wingfield series which has played across Canada for many years
• Edward Needles Hallowell, United States Army officer
• Jimmy Needles, American basketball coach best known for being the United States\' first Olympic basketball coach
• Nadel, German surname meaning needle

Fictional people

• Jimmy Needles, character in the video game TimeSplitters 2
• Needle (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
• Douglas J. Needles from Back to the Future Part II and Part III

Other

• 3 Needles, 2005 dramatic film which was directed by Thom Fitzgerald
• Eye of a needle, aphorism used in the religious texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Needle dam, a weir designed to maintain the level or flow of a river through the use of thin "needles" of wood
• Needle valve, a type of valve having a small orifice and a threaded, needle-like plunger
• A measuring needle, an indicator on a measuring instrument or dial (measurement)
• "The Needler", a weapon used by the Covenant in Bungie\'s Halo: Combat Evolved

See also

• Microperforation
• Eye of the Needle (disambiguation)
• Needlefish (disambiguation)
• Needle gun (disambiguation)
• Needles and Pins (disambiguation)

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