Crafting

• Knitting needle
  Knitting needle
  A knitting needle or knitting pin is a tool in hand-knitting to produce knitted fabrics. They generally have a long shaft and taper at their end, but they are not nearly as sharp as sewing needles. Their purpose is two-fold...
  
  , a tool for knitting, not as sharp as a sewing needle
• Sewing needle
  Sewing needle
  A sewing needle is a long slender tool with a pointed tip. The first needles were made of bone or wood; modern ones are manufactured from high carbon steel wire, nickel- or 18K gold plated for corrosion resistance. The highest quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and...
  
  , a long slender tool with a pointed tip
• Upholstery needle, a tool for upholstery, generally thick and curved

Botany

• Pine needle, the adult leaf of a pine tree
• Needle Bush
  Needle Bush
  Vachellia farnesiana, also known as Acacia farnesiana, commonly known as Needle Bush, is so named because of the numerous thorns distributed along its branches. The native range of V. farnesiana is uncertain. While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical...
  
   (Vachellia farnesiana)
• Needle Palm
  Needle Palm
  Rhapidophyllum hystrix is a palm, the sole member of the genus Rhapidophyllum. It is native to the southeastern United States, from central Florida to Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Alabama...
  
   (Rhapidophyllum hystrix)
• Needle (botany)

Geography

• Cleopatra's Needle
  Cleopatra's Needle
  Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site where its twin remains...
  
  , the name of three obelisks in London, Paris, and New York City
• Crestone Needle
  Crestone Needle
  Crestone Needle is one of the fourteeners of Colorado, in the heart of the Sangre de Cristo Range. It is part of a group of four fourteeners known as "the Crestones", headed by Crestone Peak and also including Kit Carson Mountain and Humboldt Peak.While not as high as Crestone Peak, and connected...
  
  , a mountain in Colorado, United States
• Needle Mountains, Colorado, United States
• Needle Rocks
  Needle Rocks
  The Needle Rocks, also known as the Needles, are a group of five main rocks with a combined area of about 10.5 ha, in south-eastern Australia. They are part of the Maatsuyker Island Group, lying close to the southern end of the south-western coast of Tasmania. They are part of the Southwest...
  
  , Tasmania, Australia
• Needles (Black Hills)
  Needles (Black Hills)
  The Needles of the Black Hills of South Dakota are a region of fantastically eroded granite pillars, towers, and spires. Popular with rock climbers and tourists alike, the Needles are accessed from the Needles Highway, which is a part of Sylvan Lake Road...
  
  , a region of granite pillars in South Dakota, United States
• Needles, California
  Needles, California
  Needles is a city located in the Mojave Desert on the western banks of the Colorado River in San Bernardino County, California. It is located in the Mohave Valley, which straddles the California–Arizona border. The city is accessible via Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 95...
  
  , United States
• The Needles
  The Needles
  The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay. The Needles lighthouse stands at the end of the formation...
  
  , three stacks of chalk off the Isle of Wight, England
• The Needles, a district of Canyonlands National Park
  Canyonlands National Park
  Canyonlands National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab and preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. The park is divided into four districts:...
  
  , Utah, United States
• Sewing-Machine Needles
  Sewing-Machine Needles
  Sewing-Machine Needles is a group of three prominent rock needles, the highest 45 m, lying close southeast of Rancho Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name Sewing-Machine Rock was given by whalers for what was originally a conspicuous natural arch...
  
  , a group of three prominent rock needles near Rancho Point, Deception Island, Shetland Islands

Medicine

• Acupuncture
  Acupuncture
  Acupuncture is a type of alternative medicine that treats patients by insertion and manipulation of solid, generally thin needles in the body....
  
   needles
• Hypodermic needle
  Hypodermic needle
  A hypodermic needle is a hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject substances into the body or extract fluids from it...
  
  , a hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject substances into the body
• Paresthesia
  Paresthesia
  Paresthesia , spelled "paraesthesia" in British English, is a sensation of tingling, burning, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect. It is more generally known as the feeling of "pins and needles" or of a limb "falling asleep"...
  
  , a tingling or numbing sensation commonly known as "pins and needles"
• Surgical needles, various types of needles used for surgical suture
• Tuohy needle
  Tuohy needle
  A Tuohy needle is a hollow hypodermic needle, very slightly curved at the end, suitable for inserting epidural catheters.The needle features an anti-coring curve at its tip, as shown in the picture above left.- Epidural needle :...
  
  , a needle used to administer epidural catheters

Music

• Gramophone needle, used for playing records
• "Needles" (System of a Down song)
  Needles (System of a Down song)
  "Needles" is the second song in System of a Down's album Toxicity, and follows on from the previous track "Prison Song"."Needles" was written by Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian. The lyrics describe the dangers of drug abuse. The song compares the feeling of drug addiction to "having a tapeworm"; i.e...
  
  , a 2001 song by System of a Down on the album Toxicity
• "Needle", a song by The Screaming Jets on the album All for One (Screaming Jets album)
• "Needles and Pins", a song by Deftones on Deftones (album)
  Deftones (album)
  Deftones was well received by critics earning an aggregate rating of 74 on Metacritic. The music website Sputnikmusic gave it a perfect score and praised the band for have returned to their heavy sound without leaving behind their experimental side, lauding also Moreno's abstract lyrics and the...
  
  
• The Needles (band)
  The Needles (band)
  The Needles were a four-piece band who formed in their mid-teens in late 90s Aberdeen, relocating to Glasgow in 2001. Influenced heavily by 60s garage punk and late 70s new wave/powerpop, their first single on newly formed indie label Lithium Records attracted a great deal of attention for such a...
  
  , a four-piece band formed in the late 90s

People

• Dan Needles
  Dan Needles
  Dan Needles is best known as the playwright behind the popular Wingfield Series which has played across Canada for many years. It was performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada and was aired, in part, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
  
  , playwright
• Edward Needles Hallowell
  Edward Needles Hallowell
  Edward "Ned" Needles Hallowell was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry following the death of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863.-Early life:Edward grew up in a well-to-do Quaker family...
  
   (1836–1871), United States Army officer
• Jimmy Needles
  Jimmy Needles
  James R. "Jimmy" Needles was an American basketball coach best known for being the United States' first Olympic basketball coach in 1936....
  
   (1900–1969), American basketball coach

Other uses

• Indicator needle of a measuring instrument
  Measuring instrument
  In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events. Established standard objects and events are used as units, and the process of measurement gives a number relating the item...
  
  
• "Needle", a cheerleading stunt
• Needle (comics)
  Needle (comics)
  The Needle is a comic book character. He is a mutant supervillain in Marvel Comics' main shared universe. Created by Mark Gruenwald, Carmine Infantino, and Al Gordon, the character first appeared in Spider-Woman #9 .-Publication history:...
  
  , a Marvel Comics character
• Needle (film), a 2010 supernatural horror film
• Needle (novel)
  Needle (novel)
  Needle is a 1950 novel written by Hal Clement, originally published the previous year in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. The book was notable in that it broke new ground in the science fiction field by postulating an alien lifeform, not hostile, which could live within the human body...
  
  , by Hal Clement
• Needles (horse)
  Needles (horse)
  Needles was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced in Florida, the descendant of Blenheim II and a son and grandson of Kentucky Derby winners Ponder and Pensive, Needles was a sickly foal who was given his name because of the numerous veterinary injections he was...
  
   (1953–1984), American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
• Tattoo machine needle, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
• Needle (module)
  Needle (module)
  Needle is a Dungeons & Dragons module.Author: Frank Mentzer -Plot summary:In Needle, the player characters are dispatched to a far jungle to retrieve a magical obelisk...
  
  , a Dungeons & Dragons module
• Needles (Amtrak station)
  Needles (Amtrak station)
  The Needles Amtrak station is a train station in Needles, California, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station consists of a covered platform located at a BNSF Railway yard...
  
  , a train station in Needles, California, USA

See also

• Microperforation
• Nadel (disambiguation)
• Needle gun (disambiguation)
  Needle gun (disambiguation)
  Needle gun or needlegun may refer to:* Needle gun, a military breechloading rifle, named after its firing pin.* Needlegun, a firearm that fires small fin-stabilized metal darts...
  
  
• Needle valve
  Needle valve
  A needle valve is a type of valve having a small port and a threaded, needle-shaped plunger. It allows precise regulation of flow, although it is generally only capable of relatively low flow rates.- Construction and operation :...
  
  
• Needlefish (disambiguation)
  Needlefish (disambiguation)
  A Needlefish is a piscivorous fish usually associated with shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea.Needlefish may also refer to:* USS Needlefish , Balao-class submarine...
  
  
• The Needler