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 Definitions of staple  [ˈsteɪ pəl]  

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Definition of 'staple' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) staple
a short piece of wire bent so as to bind together papers or the like by driving the ends through the sheets and clinching them on the other side.

2.  staple
a similar, often

3. (v.t.) staple
to secure or fasten by a staple or staples.

4. (n.) staple
a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.

5.  staple
a basic or necessary item of food:
flour, salt, and other staples.

6.  staple
a basic or principal item, feature, element, or part.

7.  staple
the fiber of wool, cotton, flax, rayon, etc., considered with reference to length and fineness.

8.  staple
a standard length of textile fibers, representing the average of such fibers taken collectively:
long-staple cotton.

9.  staple
(in medieval Europe) a town in which a body of merchants had the exclusive right to purchase certain goods for export.

10. (adj.) staple
chief or prominent among the products exported or produced by a country or district.

11.  staple
basic, chief, or principal:
staple industries.

12.  staple
principally used:
staple courses.

13. (v.t.) staple
to sort or classify according to the staple or fiber, as wool.

Etymology:  (1375–1425; place where merchants have trading rights < MD stapel; akin to staple1)

Definition of 'staple' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) basic, staple
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

2. (noun) staple, staple fiber, staple fibre
a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
"staple fibers vary widely in length"

3. (noun) raw material, staple
material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

4. (noun) staple
a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables

5. (adj) staple
paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together

6. (verb) staple
necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
"wheat is a staple crop"

7. (verb) staple
secure or fasten with a staple or staples
"staple the papers together"


Definition of 'staple' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) staple
a small piece of wire pushed through pieces of paper to hold them together

2. (verb) staple
to use a stapler to fasten pieces of paper together
Print the pages out and staple them together.


Definition of 'staple' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) staple
pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town

2. (adj) staple
established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade

3. (adj) staple
fit to be sold; marketable

4. (adj) staple
regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief

5. (noun) staple
a settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic

6. (noun) staple
hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head

7. (noun) staple
the principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States

8. (noun) staple
the principal constituent in anything; chief item

9. (noun) staple
unmanufactured material; raw material

10. (noun) staple
the fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple

11. (noun) staple
a loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like

12. (noun) staple
a shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels

13. (noun) staple
a small pit

14. (noun) staple
a district granted to an abbey

15. (verb) staple
to sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton


Translation of 'staple' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a chief product of trade or industry.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: hoofbedryf Arabic flag Arabic: إنْتاج رَئيسي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: основен продукт
Brazilian flag Brazilian: produto principal Czech flag Czech: hlavní produkt German flag German: der Hauptgegenstand
Danish flag Danish: grundpille; hjørnesten Greek flag Greek: κύριο προϊόν Estonian flag Estonian: põhitoode
Farsi flag Farsi: محصول تجاري Finnish flag Finnish: päätuote French flag French: produit/article de base
Hebrew flag Hebrew: סְחוֹרָה עִיקָרִית Hindi flag Hindi: मुख्य उत्पाद, माल Croatian flag Croatian: glavni proizvod, glavni p
Hungarian flag Hungarian: fő termék Indonesian flag Indonesian: produk utama Icelandic flag Icelandic: aðalframleiðsluvara
Italian flag Italian: (prodotto principale) Japanese flag Japanese: 主要産物 Korean flag Korean: 주요 산물
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pagrindinė prekė/gaminys Latvian flag Latvian: pamatražojums Malay flag Malay: produk utama
Dutch flag Dutch: hoofdprodukt Norwegian flag Norwegian: grunnpilar Polish flag Polish: podstawowy artykuł
Portuguese flag Portuguese: produto principal Romanian flag Romanian: produs/articol de bază Russian flag Russian: основной продукт
Slovak flag Slovak: hlavný produkt Slovenian flag Slovenian: glavni proizvod Serbian flag Serbian: glavni proizvod
Swedish flag Swedish: huvudprodukt Thai flag Thai: สินค้าหลัก Turkish flag Turkish: başlıca ürün
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 主要產品(或商品) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: основний предмет торгівлі Urdu flag Urdu: تجارت کا جزو اعظم
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: mặt hàng chủ lực Chinese flag Chinese: 主要产品(或商品)

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