Take short needle to cut vegetable (7)
I believe the answer is:
opinion
'take' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'short needle to cut vegetable' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'needle' becomes 'pin' (both can mean a sharp point).
'to cut' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'vegetable' becomes 'onion' (onion is a vegetable).
'pin' with its final letter taken away is 'pi'.
'pi' going into 'onion' is 'OPINION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for opinion that I've seen before include "Viewpoint" , "Personal view" , "Personal belief or judgment" , "A view held as probable - well, that's mine" , "Assessment" .)