Word: Staple
How to pronounce: steɪpl
Noun
Definitions:
1. A piece of thin wire with a long center portion and two short end pieces that are driven by a stapler through sheets of paper to fasten them together.
Example sentences: "If you use paper on your compost, be aware of any plastic or staples in the paper - worms can't eat that!"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Attach or secure with a staple or staples.
Example sentences: "Mark stapled a batch of papers together"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A main or important element of something, especially of a diet.
Example sentences: "Bread, milk, and other staples"
2. The fiber of cotton or wool considered with regard to its length and degree of fineness.
Example sentences: "Jackets made from long-staple Egyptian cotton"
3. A center of trade, especially in a specified commodity.
Example sentences: "Proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Main or important, especially in terms of consumption.
Example sentences: "The staple foods of the poor"
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Sort or classify (wool, etc.) according to fiber.
Synonyms:
basic product
paper clip
sew together
primary element
main
core
basic
chief
mass
Derivations:
stapling
stapler
stapled
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Staple in Other Languages...
Spanish: Grapa
German: Grundnahrungsmittel
French: Agrafe
Italian: Fiocco
Turkish: Zımba
