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Needle vs Chiack - What's the difference?

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Needle is a related term of chiack.


As verbs the difference between needle and chiack

is that needle is to pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture while chiack is (australian) to taunt or tease in jest.

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.

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

    chiack

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chyack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australian) To taunt or tease in jest.
  • * 1987 , Sheila Anderson, End of the Season'', in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), ''Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women , page 45,
    • They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking , and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
  • * 2008 , Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question'', in ''True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction , page 13,
    • Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking , the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.
  • * 2008 , , The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • We believed Melbourne?s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking' – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and ' chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.
  • (British) To taunt maliciously.
    • The gang of youths chiacked the academic.

    Synonyms

    * hound * taunt * jeer

    References