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Flog vs Needle - What's the difference?

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Flog is a related term of needle.


As verbs the difference between flog and needle

is that flog is (flyga) while needle is to pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.

As a noun needle is

a long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections etc.

flog

English

Verb

(flogg)
  • To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
  • To use something to extreme; to abuse.
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  • (UK) To sell something.
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  • , title=Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days , group=aus.comms.mobile , author=Paul Edwards , date=January 26 , year=2001 , passage=And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging' their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job ' flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month. citation
  • (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
  • (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
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  • , title=Nothing to Crow About , group=rec.sport.football.australian , author=Mr Ripper , date=August 16 , year=1999 , passage=The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond. citation
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  • , title=Eng v Aus 1977 , group=aus.sport.cricket , author=Cas. , date=June 9 , year=2001 , passage=Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test. citation
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  • , title=POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs , group=aus.sport.rugby-league , author=Greg Vincent }:c{ , date=June 5 , year=2004 , passage=It'll make the Raiders look good.  Getting flogged' by a team that got '''flogged''' by a team that got ' flogged by the Bulldogs. citation
  • (agriculture) To exploit.
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  • Synonyms

    * (to whip or scourge) whip

    Derived terms

    * flog a dead horse * flogger * flog the log

    See also

    * flail * flay * vapulate

    Anagrams

    * golf ----

    needle

    English

    (wikipedia needle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections etc.
  • The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.
  • Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
  • A long, thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle .
  • The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.
  • A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
  • Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
  • A long, pointed leaf found on some conifers.
  • * 1994 , , ch. 2:
  • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth.
  • (informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
  • Derived terms

    * compass needle * knitting needle * needlenose * needlenose pliers * on pins and needles * move the needle * packing needle * pine needle * pins and needles * needle in a haystack * needlepunch * needle-sharp * needlewise

    See also

    * acerate * eye * pin

    Verb

    (needl)
  • To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
  • * 1892 , H. Lindo Ferguson, "Operation on Microphthamlmic Eyes", Ophthalmic Review? , volume 11, page 48
  • the eyes were once more beginning to show the old nystagmus; so I decided to needle' the cataracts, and on Jan. 31 I ' needled the right eye.
  • * 2000 , Felix Mann, Reinventing Acupuncture , page 109
  • Possibly the greatest effect is achieved in the hand by needling the thumb, the index finger and the region of the 1st and 2nd metacarpal.
  • To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
  • Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.
  • * 1984 , Leopold Caligor, Philip M. Bromberg, & James D. Meltzer, Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy? , page 14
  • FRED: Well, I teased her to some extent, or I needled' her, not teased her. I ' needled her about—first I said that she didn't want to work, and then I think that there were a couple of comments.
  • To form in the shape of a needle.
  • to needle crystals

    Synonyms

    * (to tease) goad, tease