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Needle is a related term of barrack.


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.

As a verb needle

is to pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.

As a proper noun barrack is

(male).

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

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    barrack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) baraque; from (etyl) barraca.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings .
  • * 1829 , , The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Volume 4, page 67,
    • Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack , composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
  • * 1919 , , Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 8287, H.R. 8068, H.R. 7925, H.R. 8870, Sept. 3, 1919-Nov. 12, 1919 , Parts 23-43, page 1956,
    • How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks' and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary ' barracks ?
  • * 1996 , , page 129,
    • I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
  • (chiefly, in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
  • (US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  • (Ireland, colloquial, usually, in the plural) A police station.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To house military personnel; to quarter.
  • * 1825 , , The Republican , Volume 11, page 276,
    • Where the men were barracked' alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were ' barracked , contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
  • To live in barracks.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  • * 1934 , , Herbert Chapman on Football , page 140,
    • I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
  • * 2006 , Ramsay Burt, Judson Dance Theater: Performative traces , page 192,
    • Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
  • * 2009 , , The Heart of the Game , unnumbered page,
    • Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked' the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the ' barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).
  • * 1988 , J. A. Mangan (editor), Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914 , page 266,
    • The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
  • * 2009 , Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey , page 115,
    • I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
  • * 2010 , John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions , page 75,
    • ‘So to me barracking' for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody ' barracked for Essendon.’
    Synonyms
    * (jeer and heckle) badger, jeer, tease, make fun of * (cheer) cheer, root for (US)