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Place for a needle
Answer for the clue "Place for a needle ", 11 letters:
speedometer
Alternative clues for the word speedometer
Word definitions for speedometer in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Daylight is worse; the red indicator on the speedometer fades out of sight, and the red illumination is invisible. ▪ For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer . ▪ Miguel traced the speedometer with a finger. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed [syn: speed indicator ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that measures, and indicates the current speed of a vehicle. 2 Such a device incorporating an odometer.
Usage examples of speedometer.
The speedometer was edged over to a thousand miles an hour, when there was a dazzlingly bright flash in the sky behind and above him.
Even then he would have disbelieved any such possibility had he not glanced down at his speedometer and realized he was going ten miles over the legal limit on the narrow road.
Easing down on the accelerator, Father John glanced at the speedometer needle jumping at sixty-five.
In fact another five kilometres an hour on the speedometer might well have seen them over the precipice.
The indicator on the speedometer started to drop steadily as the engine continued to chug.
N6 for most of the journey, always keeping the speedometer five kilometres below the limit.
He pushed the speedometer well over ninety causing the little car to skid along country lanes.
He carried an air of determination about him, an urgency, and when Gayle glanced at the speedometer, she saw that they were moving at just under eighty.
But then they were roaring through a cluster of dark, white-washed buildings, the speedometer still hovering at eighty.
When the speedometer had dropped to under thirty, Gayle tried to leap out, but the man grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across the seat.
Transfixed, he watched the speedometer needle crawl gradually counterclockwise, then snapped off the headlight to conserve energy.
Apprehensively, he watched the speedometer mete out his remaining freedom in diminishing seconds of arc, stemming the urge to brake to a stop and bolt headlong up the tunnel on foot.
Craft took a deep breath and energized the tram, watching the speedometer by flashlight.
He thought of a way to delay his pursuers as the tram slowed further, studying the speedometer, steeling himself for the effort.
No dreams of downshifting from five to four to goose the speedometer into three digits.