Definitions for staple

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staple sta·ple

Spelling: [stey-puh l]

IPA: /ˈsteɪ pəl/

Staple is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in staple (aelpst).

Definitions for staple

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 staple

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 staple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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