sewing needle
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- noun
- /ˈsoʊɪŋ ˈnidəl/
:
aguja de coser
- She used a sewing needle to fix the tear in her dress.
- thread a sewing needle
- insert the sewing needle
- use a sewing needle
Examples
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He carefully threaded the sewing needle before starting his project.
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I tried to get it out this morning with a, a sewing needle, and it's just in too deep.
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And the sewing needle goes directly through my finger.
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I have brought the point of an ordinary sewing needle into view - to give an idea of the size.
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No, sewing needles work much better.
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Package of sewing needles, A-1326-3
Academic text (2011) -
It happened because of three sewing needles, the shiny steel kind you can buy in any town marketplace.
Fiction book (1998) -
And they rubbed salt in the wounds and sewed up deeper cuts with sewing needles.
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It was a needle, a little sewing needle that had been slid painfully into the thick, fatty muscle of my thigh.
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"I will never use their looms and their potter's p185 wheel and their sewing needles," Xucate often told Ipa.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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A small sharp metal tool used to sew or knit
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a needle used for sewing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sewing' (the process of joining fabric) with 'needle' (a metal implement for thread), so a learner who knows both constituents can easily infer the compound's meaning. The noun–noun modifier pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic construction (e.g., Spanish 'aguja de coser'), making this immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Sewing needle is a plain name: sewing shows it joins cloth and needle shows it is a small, sharp point that 'pricks' fabric. Picture that tiny point with a little hole that 'carries' the thread to 'pass it through fabric', and that is why the phrase means the thin metal tool used for sewing.