单词	pinprick
释义	pinprick /ˈpɪnprɪk / noun 1A prick caused by a pin: for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pinprick... This process enables the donor to gift this precious platelet concentrate to a sick relative with just an hour of gazing absent-mindedly at the smiley blood drop and suffering little more than two pinpricks. The country's leaders are worried the sporadic suicide bombings could be relative pinpricks leading up to terrorism on a much larger scale. Other ballots are more baffling: those with pinpricks across the portion of the card that does not match any contest in the ballot book. 1.1A minor annoyance or irritation: compared with the indignities he had so far endured, this was a mere pinprick... It was a minor pinprick in his side that his plan had not succeeded. Last night a senior air force officer described the bombing of the sites as a minor operation, a pinprick raid which accomplished what it set out to achieve. These explorations are, however, mere pinpricks in the impervious hide of western culture. 2A very small dot or amount: the stars were pinpricks of light... The iris of each eye was dotted with pinpricks of lights like stars, and the pupils were gray, like the moon. Suddenly, in the black night sky, a pinprick of light is spotted off the nose of the plane. Suddenly, the whole Net vanishes, except for a few pinpricks of light, far, far away, imitating the stars on a cloudless, impossibly dark night.
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