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ALL meanings of staple

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  • noun staple a basic or principal item, thing, feature, element, or part: Cowboy dramas are a staple on television. 1
  • noun staple the fiber of wool, cotton, flax, rayon, etc., considered with reference to length and fineness. 1
  • noun staple Textiles. a standard length of textile fibers, representing the average of such fibers taken collectively, as short-staple or long-staple cotton. 1
  • noun staple History/Historical. a town or place appointed by royal authority as the seat of a body of merchants having the exclusive right of purchase of certain classes of goods for export. 1
  • verb with object staple to sort or classify according to the staple or fiber, as wool. 1
  • adjective staple chief or prominent among the products exported or produced by a country or district; chiefly or largely dealt in or consumed. 1
  • adjective staple basic, chief, or principal: staple industries. 1
  • adjective staple principally used: staple subjects of conversation. 1
  • adjective staple basic 1
  • transitive verb staple papers: attach 1
  • transitive verb staple attach papers to one another 1
  • noun staple clip for papers 1
  • noun staple basic element of sth 1
  • noun staple basic food, drink 1
  • noun Technical meaning of staple (language)   A programming language written at Manchester (University?) and used at ICL in the early 1970s for writing the test suites. STAPLE was based on Algol 68 and had a very advanced optimising compiler. 1
  • noun Definition of staple in Technology (language)   St Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language combining functional programming with persistent storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie, <[email protected]>. 1
  • noun staple a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality. 1
  • noun staple a principal commodity in a mercantile field; goods in steady demand or of known or recognized quality. 1
  • noun staple a basic or necessary item of food: She bought flour, sugar, salt, and other staples. 1
  • adjective staple A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people's everyday lives. 0
  • adjective staple Staple is also a noun. 0
  • countable noun staple A staple is something that forms an important part of something else. 0
  • countable noun staple Staples are small pieces of bent wire that are used mainly for holding sheets of paper together firmly. You put the staples into the paper using a device called a stapler. 0
  • verb staple If you staple something, you fasten it to something else or fix it in place using staples. 0
  • noun staple a short length of thin wire bent into a square U-shape, used to fasten papers, cloth, etc 0
  • noun staple a short length of stiff wire formed into a U-shape with pointed ends, used for holding a hasp to a post, securing electric cables, etc 0
  • verb staple to secure (papers, wire, etc) with a staple or staples 0
  • adjective staple of prime importance; principal 0
  • adjective staple (of a commodity) forming a predominant element in the product, consumption, or trade of a nation, region, etc 0
  • noun staple a staple commodity 0
  • noun staple a main constituent; integral part 0
  • noun staple a principal raw material produced or grown in a region 0
  • noun staple the fibre of wool, cotton, etc, graded as to length and fineness 0
  • noun staple (in medieval Europe) a town appointed to be the exclusive market for one or more major exports of the land 0
  • verb staple to arrange or sort (wool, cotton, etc) according to length and fineness 0
  • noun staple the chief commodity, or any of the most important commodities, made, grown, or sold in a particular place, region, country, etc. 0
  • noun staple a chief item, part, material, or element in anything 0
  • noun staple any chief item of trade, regularly stocked and in constant demand 0
  • noun staple the fiber of cotton, wool, flax, etc., with reference to length and fineness 0
  • adjective staple regularly found on the market or in stock as a result of a constant demand 0
  • adjective staple produced, consumed, or exported regularly and in quantity 0
  • adjective staple most important; leading; principal 0
  • verb transitive staple to sort (wool, cotton, etc.) according to the nature of its staple 0
  • noun staple a U-shaped piece of metal with sharp, pointed ends, driven into a surface to keep a hook, hasp, wire, etc. firmly in place 0
  • noun staple a similar piece of thin wire driven through papers and clinched over as a binding 0
  • verb transitive staple to fasten or bind with a staple or staples 0
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