Johnson vs needle

Johnson

name
  • An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington. 

  • An unincorporated community in Gibson County, Indiana. 

  • A number of townships in the United States, listed under Johnson Township. 

  • A common surname transferred from the given name. The second most common surname in the United States. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A locality in Cochise County, Arizona. 

  • A minor city in Big Stone County, Minnesota. 

  • A town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. 

  • A ghost town in Kane County, Utah. 

  • A town and village therein, in Lamoille County, Vermont. 

  • An unincorporated community in Easton, Marathon County, Wisconsin. 

  • A village in Nemaha County, Nebraska. 

  • A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin. 

  • An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Ohio. 

  • A township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. 

  • An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky. 

  • A hamlet in Orange County, New York. 

  • An unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia. 

  • A city in Washington County, Arkansas. 

  • An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware. 

needle

verb
  • To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle. 

  • To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at. 

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

noun
  • A needle-like leaf found on some conifers. 

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

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

  • A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus. 

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

  • A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph. 

  • 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. 

  • The death penalty carried out by lethal injection. 

  • Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia. 

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