Definitions for Staples

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Staples sta·ple

Spelling: [stey-puh l]

IPA: /ˈsteɪ pəl/

Staples is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in Staples (aelpsst).

Definitions for Staples

noun

1. a short piece of wire bent so as to bind together papers, sections of a book, or the like, by driving the ends through the sheets and clinching them on the other side.
2. a similar, often U -shaped piece of wire or metal with pointed ends for driving into a surface to hold a hasp, hook, pin, bolt, wire, or the like.
3. a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
4. a principal commodity in a mercantile field; goods in steady demand or of known or recognized quality.
5. a basic or necessary item of food:
6. a basic or principal item, thing, feature, element, or part:
7. the fiber of wool, cotton, flax, rayon, etc., considered with reference to length and fineness.
8. Textiles. a standard length of textile fibers, representing the average of such fibers taken collectively, as short-staple or long-staple cotton.
9. 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.

adjective

1. chief or prominent among the products exported or produced by a country or district; chiefly or largely dealt in or consumed.
2. basic, chief, or principal:
3. principally used:

verb (used with object)

1. to secure or fasten by a staple or staples:
2. to sort or classify according to the staple or fiber, as wool.

Origin of Staples

before 900; Middle English stapel orig., support, post, Old English stapol; cognate with Middle Dutch stapel foundation, German Stapel pile, Old Norse stǫpull pillar

Examples for Staples

The talk radio phenom and Fox News staple has identified himself as a longtime listener of the TRN patriarch.

Soon enough the young crowd began to notice the drink that has now become a staple.

The staple length of common American cotton is from 24-28 mm.

The pendulum swing between moods and tone, however, became a staple of the shoot.

But we must not think of it as our principal or staple industry.

Erectile dysfunction jokes have become a staple for comedy in the last 15 years.

A difference of only 1/2 mm in the length of the staple, may mean a difference of 10% in the value.

Tor, on the other hand, has been an Internet staple for years.

Pig-meat, in its various forms, is our staple article of food.

When the latch clicked and the hook dropped into the staple he, too, entered the kitchen.