A fine, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, etc.
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
}} The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
A text string that is searched for within another string.
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
To form in the shape of a needle.
Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
(Australian nettle);
Wood nettle (noshow=1);
s and spurge nettles of genus noshow=1:
, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
, Texas bull nettle,
, bull nettle,
Nettle trees or tree nettles:
Various species of the genus noshow=1:
(scratchbush),
(tree nettle);
(noshow=1);
Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
(noshow=1).
(noshow=1);
, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
, horse-nettle;
Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
Celtis (hackberry).
, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly noshow=1, white nettle;
(ver=190729, family Urticaceae);
or painted nettle (Coleus);
(Stachys);
(Galeopsis);
noshow=1,
Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
