Needle vs. Sword — What's the Difference?

A slender, pointed implement used for sewing or surgical suturing, made usually of polished steel and having an eye at one end through which a length of thread is passed and held.

A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved.

Any of various similar implements, such as a fine sharp-pointed instrument used in acupuncture or a pointed shaft used in knitting, crocheting, or lace making.

A handheld weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.

A sharp-pointed instrument used in engraving.

An instrument of death or destruction.

A slender piece of jewel or steel used to transmit vibrations from the grooves of a phonograph record.

The use of force, as in war.

A slender pointer or indicator on a dial, scale, or similar part of a mechanical device.

Military power or jurisdiction.

A magnetic needle.

(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.

A hypodermic needle.

(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

(Informal) A hypodermic injection; a shot.

(tarot) A card of this suit.

Chiefly Upper Northern US See dragonfly.

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

A narrow stiff leaf, as of a pine or fir.

(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

A fine, sharp projection, as a spine of a sea urchin or a crystal.

To stab or cut with a sword

A tall narrow rock formation.

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

An obelisk.

Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

(Informal) A goading, provoking, or teasing remark or act.

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

To prick, pierce, or stitch with a needle.

The military power of a country.

(Informal) To goad, provoke, or tease.

One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

To sew or do similar work with a needle.

A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.

Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.

(informal) A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.

A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.

A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.

The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.

(programming) A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)

(entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.

To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.

(transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.

(ambitransitive) To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.

A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.

See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.

A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.

An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.

To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.

To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.

To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.

To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

As of a conifer

A slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

A sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

A stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;

Prick with a needle