darning needle English

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darning needle

— noun a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread

— noun (= dragonfly) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc

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darning needle English » English

mosquito hawk

dragonfly

snake feeder

snake doctor

skeeter hawk

sewing needle

devil’s darning needle

embroidery needle

odonate

flying adder

dragon fly

darner

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But we should remember who, it is said, will pass through the eye of a needle to find salvation.

The Moscow Patriarch would likely become stuck in that needle's eye because of his pearl-encrusted chasubles, his gold and his Mercedes.

After all, the objective - to identify a few terrorists hiding among millions of law-abiding citizens, before they commit a violent act - is the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack.

Since assuming office, President Barack Obama has made clear his desire to lift the federal ban on needle exchange in the United States.

Put simply, algorithmic searches are what computer programmers use as a last resort when looking for a mathematical needle in a haystack: they make the computer try every possible answer in turn until it finds the right one.