Staple

Definition: Staple

Staple

Adjective

1. Necessary foods or commodities; "wheat is a staple crop".

Noun

1. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant.

2. Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing.

3. A short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables.

4. Paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together.

Verb

1. Secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "staple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Computing

Agriculture

Chemical Industry

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Staple

Barter

Adjective: commercial, mercantile, trading; interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale.

Connection

Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post.

Mart

Noun: mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's.

Materials

Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.

Merchandise

Noun: merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade; (store); cargo; (contents).

Pendency

Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse.

Texture

Substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple, organism.

Whole

Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

Crosswords: Staple

What? How dare you! If I find out who this is, I'll staple a flag to your butt and mail you to Iran! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I was able to pull a few strings and managed to get you you're very own staple remover. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Open them or I'll staple your eyelids to your forehead! (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally)

Wanna take you there like the Staple Singers (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

LET'S DO IT AGAIN (performing artist: STAPLE SINGERS)

RESPECT YOURSELF (performing artist: Staple Singers )

I'll Take You There (performing artist: The Staple Singers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Unprocessed Synthetic Staple Fibers: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• A Staple State (State and Economics, No 10) (reference)

• Fundamentals of Staple Yarn Manufacture (reference)

• Marketing staple food crops in tropical Africa (reference)

• Short Staple Yarn Manufacturing (reference)

• Songs of Flesh Songs of Spirit (Side Staple) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Long Staple Cotton Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• The Best of the Staple Singers [Stax] (reference)

• The Staple Singers: Greatest Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Staple Cartridge (3x5000) forn24/n32/n40/n3025/n4025/n4525 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cobra 8000 Forward Action Professional Staple and Nail Gun (reference)

• Bostitch 97/25 3/16" Crown, 1" Length Staple for S3297-LHF (5000-Pack) (reference)

• PowerShot 5700KB Forward-Action Heavy-Duty Staple and Nail Gun Kit (reference)

• Arrow Fastener JT21M Household Staple Gun Tacker with Enamel Finish (reference)

• Arrow Fastener T2025 The Attacker Dual Purpose Staple Gun Tacker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A plug of eelgrass, Zostera marina, shown just before it is transplanted. Note the u shaped "staple" that is used to secure it to the bottom. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Green low patches are taro patches. Taro, a tuber, is a staple food of the western Pacific Islands. Native women maintain the taro culture. Credit: Small World.

Breadfruit trees destroyed by Typhoon Amy. Breadfruit is a major staple on Ulul and other Pacific islands. Credit: Small World.

Mechical Picker in long staple cotton Demming, NM. Credit: USDA.

A cotton classer at Staple Cotton in MS grades cotton. Credit: USDA.

Cotton ready for grading at Staple Cotton in MS. Credit: USDA.

To ensure continuing worldwide availability of this valuable food staple, potato plant breeders must unite desirable processing and fresh-market characteristics with late blight resistance. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

One year of reciprocal aid. New Zealand butter in making. Our Army has received 2,032,000 pounds of this staple from New Zealand, under reciprocal lend-lease. Most of the food for the U.S. armed forces stationed in New Zealand including 10,279,000 pounds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning chopping cotton. Beans are the staple fare of these workers. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Staple Cotton Coop Association office on street in Leland, Mississippi Delta. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He could see the keyhole, and the strong bolt deeply plunged into the iron staple.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Pinworms are about the length of a staple and live in the rectum of humans. (references)

Available published series report that the immediate operative mortality rate for both vertical banded gastroplasty and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is relatively low. On the other hand, morbidity in the early postoperative period, i.e., wound infections, dehiscence, leaks from staple line breakdown, stomal stenosis, marginal ulcers, various pulmonary problems, and deep thrombophlebitis in the aggregate, may be as high as 10 percent or more. In the later postoperative period, other problems may arise and may require reoperation. (references)

Business

Titanium staple is reimbursed for osteotomy, but not for use on ligaments. (references)

Nylon cloth, however, grew the faster in production, followed by acrylic, PFY, polyester staple, cotton and rayon clothes. (references)

It has been said that raw materials of textile fabrics consist of six types, viz. Cotton, polyester, filament, polyester staple, acrylic and nylon fibers. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Rice is the main staple food in C�te d'Ivoire. (references)

Nigeria

Rice is a basic staple of the masses in Nigeria. (references)

Burkina Faso

Staple crops are millet, sorghum, maize, and rice. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

Political protests against reform are a staple of Ecuadorian life. (references)

Ecuador

An estimated 91 percent of the poorest households go without some basic food staple, and more than half forego needed medical care. (references)

TUNISIA

Tunisia has three Value Added Tax (VAT) rates (6, 18 and 29 percent) based on the category of goods sold (i.e., staple, regular, or luxury items). (references)

Trade

Maldives

Certain staple agricultural products are imported mainly by the State Trading Organization (STO). (references)

Honduras

Goods exempted from this tax include staple foods, fuels, medicines, agrochemical, household cleaning products, books, magazines and educational materials, agricultural machinery and tools, handicrafts, and capital goods such as trucks, tractors, cranes, and computers, among others. (references)

Travel

Finland

Potatoes are a main staple and accompany most evening dishes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "staple": a staple commodity ♦ fine staple wool ♦ rayon staple ♦ staple commodity ♦ staple diet ♦ staple fibers ♦ staple fibre ♦ staple food ♦ staple food of a country ♦ staple gun ♦ staple in ♦ staple industries ♦ staple together ♦ staple topic ♦ staple trade ♦ statute staple ♦ wool staple. Additional references.

Beginning with "staple": staple-gunned, staple-is, staple-like, staple-marks, staple-post.

Ending with "staple": long-staple, non-staple.

Afrikaans

hakie (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis). (various references)

Albanian

ushqim bazë, tel (chord, clothes line, line, string, swig, wire), ndaj sipas llojit të fijes, lëndë e parë (material, raw material, stock), kllapë metalike, kavallotë, kapëse (clip, dog, fastener, hold, pin), kap me kapëse teli, element kryesor (center, centre), artikull kryesor. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسمار (brad, nail, pin, rivet, spike, tack), ‏مشبك سلكي, ‏مشبك الورق, ‏تيلة القطن, ‏تشبث (bite, cling, clutch, hang on, hug, tenacity), ‏جزء أساسي (main part), ‏الموضوع الرئيسي, ‏الغذاء الرئيسي, ‏الغداء الرئيسي, ‏السلعة الرئيسية, ‏أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, substantial, ultimate, underling), ‏رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign), ‏شبك (kink, pin, ravel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суровина, скобка (splice), скоба (brace, bracing, bracket, clamp, clinch, clip, corbel, dog nail, girdle, holdfast, hoop, loop, rim, shackle, tie, yoke), слагам скоба на, търговски център (emporium, mart, shopping mall), книговезко телче, качество на влакно, класифицирам (categorize, class, classify, distribute, grade, group, label, pigeonhole, range, rank), гнездо за стойка на обой, главен елемент, важен продукт, важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, substantial, top-line, weighty). (various references)

Chinese 

釘書針 , �'�书�'� (Staples), 名�"� (name-brand product). (various references)

Czech

svorka (brace, clip, dog, paper clip, pin), sponka (fastener, grip, slide), sešít (fine-draw, scarf, seam, sew together, stitch up), základní (basal, basic, Cardinal, elementary, essential, fundamental, funded, overriding, primary, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, standard, ultimate, underlying), vlákno (fiber, fibre, filament, grain, strand, string, thread), roztřídit (assort, rank, re-sort, sort, sort through, Spall), odvìtví (branch, line), hlavní (big, capital city, Cardinal, chief, decuman, essential, leading, magistral, main, major, prime, principal, star), drátek. (various references)

Danish

stapel-fibre, stabler, uldtot, rørbøjle (collar, pipe bracket, pipe clamp, tab), krampe (clip, convulsion, cramp, hasp, hook, hook joint, loop, muscle cramp, unsound), haefteklamme, forbrændingsaccelerator, dagligvarer (convenience goods, staple convenience products, staple goods, staple products). (various references)

Dutch

nietje (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis), kramp (brace, bracket, clamp, convulsion, parenthesis, spasm), klamp (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis), haakje (brace, bracket, clamp, clasp, hook, parenthesis). (various references)

Esperanto

krampo (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis). (various references)

Faeroese

krampi (brace, bracket, clamp, convulsion, parenthesis), klombur (brace, bracket, clamp, parenthesis). (various references)

Farsi 

فقره اصلی , موادخام , مصنوعات مهم واصلی یک محل , چهارپایه تخت , کالای اصلی بازاریاجورکردن , قلم اصلی , گیره کاغذ (Clip, Pin), تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Mast, Perch, Prop, Shaft, Shot, Spike, Staff, Stanchion, Timber), ستون (Column, Jamb, Pier, Pile, Pillar, Shaft), عمود, طبقه بندی رزه , جزء اصلی هرچیزی , بست اهنی . (various references)

Finnish

villatapuli, palonkiihdytin, letkukiristin (pipe bracket, tab). (various references)

French

fibre, crampon (strake, stud, tire stud), cavalier (straddle), agrafe. (various references)

German

Krampe (brace, bracket, clamp, cleat, parenthesis), Klammer (brace, bracket, clamp, clip, cramp, dog, grip, paperclip, parenthesis, peg), heftklammer (stapler), stapel (accumulation, batch, crowd, depot, heap, mass, mound, multitude, pack, pile, stack, stocks), klammern (brace, braces, brackets, clamp, clasp, clinch, cling, clip, cotter, peg, to clamp, to clasp, to cotter). (various references)

Greek 

συνδετήρας (clip). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרכיב עיקרי, מצרך (article, commodity, item), מסמר חי'ת, עקרי (capital, central, fundamental, leading, main, major, pivotal, preponderant, primary, principal, substantial), חומר יסו�", חוט (cord, fiber, fibre, line, strand, string, thread, wire), כליב, ראשי (capital, chief, leading, main, major, paramount, primary, principal, top), סיב (fiber, fibre, floss, string), סחור�" עקרית, סכת �"�"וק. (various references)

Hungarian

tartós (chronic, durable, enduring, hickory, indissoluble, keeping, lasting, perdurable, permanent, solid, sound, stable, standing, substantive, to dye sg in grain, to last, well knit), fémkapocs, legfontosabb (chief, leading, main, premier, primal, prime, principal, supreme), fő- (capital, head, major, ruling, topmost), főtermény, fűzőkapocs, gyapjúszál, gyapotszál, állandó (caducous, client, constant, continual, continuous, editorial staff, everlasting, fixed, have a general invitation, immobile, immutable, invariable, invariant, permanent, perpetual, repertoire piece, stable, standing, stationary, steady, stock, unvarying), legfőbb (capital, chief, last, paramount, primal, supreme), u szeg, legfontosabb áru, legfontosabb árucikk, lerakodóhely (dump), nyersanyag (raw material, stock, stuff), piac (market, marketplace, mop fair, vent), rakodóhely (loading stand, operational stand), kereskedelmi központ (emporia, emporium, mart). (various references)

Indonesian

makanan pokok (staple food). (various references)

Italian

stangata (blow), stapel, forcella metallica di attivazione, alimento principale, arpese (clamp, cramp), arpione (harpoon, hinge, hook), cambretta, cucire con punti metallici, di base (basic, ground, primary, standard), di prima necessit� , dispositivo di fissaggio (clasp, clip, fastener), fastener (clasp, clip, fastener), agrafe (buckle, fastener, metal lace), forcella (crotch, fork, merrythought, wishbone), mannello (swath, swathe), principale (boss, capital, chief, employer, foremost, grand, head, leading, main, major, manager, master, overriding, primal, primary, prime, principal, uppermost), prodotti di comodo (convenience goods, staple convenience products, staple goods, staple products), prodotto di base (commodity), prodotto principale, punto meccanico, punto metallico, rampone (gaff, harpoon), fibra (courage, fiber, fibre, filament, texture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

食糧管理法 (Staple Food Control Act), ス�"ンドル油 (souffle, Sphinx, spindle oil, splice, spline, spool, spooler, spoon, spoon-feeding, Sputnik, staple fiber, sub-economizer), 主食物 (main article of diet, staple food), 主食 (staple food), 主要物価 (prices of staple commodities), 常食 (daily food, regular diet, staple food). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅしょくぶつ (main article of diet, staple food), しゅしょく (dissipation, portable candlestick, predominant color, sensual pleasures, staple food, wine and women), しゅようぶっか (prices of staple commodities), しょくりょうか�"りほう (Staple Food Control Act), スフ (staple fiber), じょうしょく (daily food, regular diet, staple food). (various references)

Korean 

물림� (Chuck, Staples). (various references)

Manx

undinagh (basic, cardinal, firsthand, fundamental, intrinsic), stapyl, staplley, lhoob yiarn, kiangle lesh stapyl, cur stapyl er. (various references)

Papiamen

kram (brace, bracket, clamp, diarrhoea, parenthesis). (various references)

Pig Latin

aplestay

Portuguese

grampo (brace, bracket, clam, clasp, claw, clinch, clincher, clip, cramp, dog, dog nail, grab, holdfast, locket, parenthesis, spike, tie-plate). (various references)

Romanian

scoabã (bracer, chisel, clamp, clasp, clench, clincher, clip, cramp, crampon, dog, Gib, gouge, link, strap, yoke), materie primã (stock), agrafã (brooch, clasp, cramp, fastener, hairpin, hook, snap), cârlig (clamp, clasp, crook, crotchet, Fang, grapnel, grapple, hanger, harpoon, hook, peg), calitate (affection, assets, attribute, character, class, feature, grade, kind, Mark, merit, property, quality, rank, rate, sort, title, virtue), capsa, crampon (calk, crampon, dog, holdfast, hook, Spike, stud), încopcia (hook), fond (background, bottom, content, elements, essence, field, fund, gist, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, spine, stock, substance, sum, supply), prevedea cu crampoane, prevedea cu zãvor, principal (broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, leading, main, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal), producţie principalã, puţ interior, regulat (equable, even, harmonious, legitimate, normal, orderly, ordinary, regular, regularly, rhythmic, rhythmical, smooth, steady), fibrã (fiber, fibre, grain, lint, string, thread). (various references)

Russian 

скрепка (clinch, clip, paper clip, paperclip), скреплять (bond, brace, cement, clamp, clip, knit, ratify), скоба (clamp, clevis, clip, cramp, holdfast, hook, rim, shackle, strap, yoke), скат (chute, gradient, incline, ramp, skat, slope), гезенк (winze), волокно (fiber, fibre, filament, lint, thread), основной продукт (centerpiece), основная черта, отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, cull, handpick, pick, select, single out, sort out, tell off, weed away, weed out), небольшая слепая шахта. (various references)

Scottish

staipeal , stapull (a staple). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stovarište (depot, storehouse, timber yard, warehouse), stega (carpenter-bee, clamp, cramp, holdfast, squeezer), spajalica (paper clip), razvrstati (classify, grade, sort out), heftati, građa (build, material, structure, stuff, substance, wale). (various references)

Spanish

grapa (clamp, clip, cramp, holdfast, paper fastener). (various references)

Swedish

stapelvara, märla, krampa (clamp, clamping, clench, clevis, cramp, embrace). (various references)

Turkish

satış yeri (outlet, salesroom, showroom), sınıflamak (categorize, classify, grade, seed), liflerine göre ayırmak, çatal çivi ile tutturmak, ana (basic, broad, capital, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, leading, main, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, primary, principal, principle), başlıca (Cardinal, chiefly, essential, largely, leading, main, mainly, major, mostly, primarily, primary, prime, principally, ruling), başlıca öğe, başlıca mahsül, elyaf (fiber, fibre, fibrilla), esas (authentic, basal, base, basic, basis, beginnings, broad, central, constitutive, corner stone, element, elemental, essence, extract, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, guiding, heartbeat, intrinsic, main, master, nub, parent, pith, pith and marrow, pivotal, postulate, principal, principle, quiddity, radical, substance, sum, the merits, the nub, ultimate, underlying), esas ürün, hammadde (basic materials, commodity, producer goods, production goods, raw, raw material, raw materials, stock, stuff), iplikçik, çatal çivi, lif (fiber, fibre, fibroid, fibrous, filament, film, string, thread, washcloth), zımbalamak (punch), pazar (bazaar, market, market place, mart, outlet, sun, Sunday), piyasada tutulmuş, raptiye (clip, drawing pin, fastener, paper clip, pin, tack, thumbtack), raptiyelemek (fasten, tack), tel zımba, temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), yerleşmiş (confirmed, domicilled, engrained, established, ingrained, inveterate, sedentary, situate, situated), zımba (perforator, punch, puncher, stamp, stapler, stapling machine), kapı sürgü. (various references)

Ukrainian

скріпляти скобами, скоба (bail, brace, bracket, buckle, clamp, clench, clinch, clincher, clip, cramp, holdfast, stirrup), головний елемент, головний (arch-, basal, basic, broad, capital, captain, cephalic, chief, governing, grand, head, leading, master, overriding, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, star), основний товар, основний (basal, base, basic, basilar, capital, central, chief, first, foremost, fundamental, key, main, master, organic, primary, primitive, principal, quintessence, radical, substantial, ultimate, underlying), перевіряти товари, що підлягають експорту. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sản phẩm chủ yếu nguyên vật liệu, vật liệu chưa chế biến yếu tố chủ yếu sợi, len (stapler, wool), chính (capitally, cardinal, keynote, leading, main, mainly, primarily, primary, principal, principally), chủ yếu (cardinal, central, chief, governing, main, primal), đinh kẹp (holdfast). (various references)

Welsh

styffylu, stwffwl (post). (various references)

ansulas. (various references)

estaple. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "staple": stapled, stapler, staplers, staples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Staple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astolphe, sapele, Sapley, Satpal, scaple, Stadlen, stahl, stalle, Stampfle, stape, stapel, Stapeley, stapfe, stapple, steaple, stepel, steple, Stopsley, straple, stumple, stuple. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, septal, tepals.

-1 letter: lapse, leaps, leapt, least, lepta, pales, palet, paste, pates, peals, peats, pelts, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, salep, sepal, septa, setal, slate, slept, spale, spate, spelt, splat, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, tapes, teals, tepal, tepas, tesla.

-2 letters: ales, alps, alts, apes, apse, ates, east, eats, etas, laps, lase, last, late, lats.

+1 letter: amplest, aplites, apostle, caplets, lappets, palates, paliest, pallets, palters, pastels, pelotas, peltast, persalt, placets, planets, plaster, platens, platers, platies, psalter, pulsate, spatzle, stapled, stapler, staples, talipes.

+2 letters: apostles, capelets, chaplets, epaulets, epiblast, explants, fleapits, haplites, heeltaps, outleaps, palestra, paletots, palettes, palliest, palmiest, palpates, panelist, pantiles, partlets, pastille, pastless, patellas, pathless, pedestal, peltasts, persalts, petalous, petrales, petrosal, peytrals, pilaster, placates, plackets, plainest, plaister, plaiters, planters, plasters, plastery, platanes, plateaus, platiest, platters, playlets, pleasant, pleaters, polecats, polentas, polestar, potables, prattles, prelates, psalters, psaltery, pulsated, pulsates, replants, replates, sceptral, septical, spaetzle, spatzles, spectral, splatted, splatter, spoliate, sprattle, stapelia, staplers, sulphate, tadpoles, talipeds, tapeless, tapholes, templars, tieclasp, tramples.