Dictionary entry

A needle in a haystack

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] (အရှာရခက် သူ၊ အရာ) ကောက်ရိုးပုံထဲကအပ်။

Definition

needle /'ni:dl/ n ၁။ [C] ခ်ဳပ္အပ္။ the eye of a needle ❍ She threaded the needle expertly. See also PINS AND NEEDLES ၂။ [C] ဇာထိုးအပ္။ knitting needles ❍ a crochet needle. ၃။ [C] (အိမ္ေျမႇာင္၊ စက္ကိရိယာ စသည္တို႔ရိွ) လက္တံ။ the speedometer needle ❍ The compass needle swung round. ၄။ [C] ေဆးထိုးအပ္။ disposable needles for injecting drugs.  INJECTION ၅။ [C] အပ္ကဲ့သို႔ ခြၽန္ေသာအရာ။ dead pine needles. ၆။ [C] ဓာတ္စက္အပ္။ ၇။ [U] ( infml ) ေဒါသ (သို႔) ရန္ေစာင္ျခင္း။ A certain amount of needle has crept into (ie gradually appeared in) this game. ❍ a needle game/ match (ie one in which the competitors are very fierce rivals). v ( infml ) (စကားျဖင့္) ဆြေပးသည္၊ ကလိသည္။ I could see that my questions were needling him. ❏ a needle in a haystack [ IDM ] (အရွာရခက္ သူ၊ အရာ) ေကာက္႐ိုးပံုထဲကအပ္။ Searching for one man in this big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Examples

  1. Hypodermic needles
  2. [share a needle] : People are at risk of disease when they share needles.
  3. A needle and thread
  4. A compass needle
  5. A record needle
  6. Pine needles