staple
IPA: stˈeɪpʌɫ
noun
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A recurring topic or character.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- A small pit.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- (obsolete) A post; prop; support
- A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2756).
- A habitational surname from Middle English.
verb
- (transitive) To sort according to its staple.
- (transitive) To secure with a staple.
adjective
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
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Examples of "staple" in Sentences
- The main staples are millet and Matooke.
- The staple food of Akas is maize and millet.
- Pearl millet is the staple food of Rajasthan.
- The Southern staples were cornbread and greens.
- A staple of the trip is hiking the Chilkoot Trail.
- The rifle is the staple of the Indian armed forces.
- The staple reason for the concert is for fundraising.
- The principal staple crops of the area are maize and black beans.
- Millets, the staple food of the people, was the main agricultural produce.
- The main staple of the people in Tang Fang village is agriculture and farming.
- The whole allure of changeling characters, a sci-fi staple, is that they could be anyone and anywhere.
- But if you get that stuff on your clothes it's there for good, so maybe a shiny staple is the lesser of two evils.
- Another pantry staple is sabudana or pearl tapioca, used to make delicious khichdi and also to make a sweet kheer.
- For those who have only ground spices, a coffee filter and a staple is all it takes to make a little spice bag to steep in the cider.
- But now he was tied with a chain that defied his teeth, and he strove in vain, by lunging, to draw the staple from the timber into which it was driven.
- Would it be too fantastic to suggest that attempting to broadbase similar books (and thus, help them attain staple reading status), may be one tiny signal to some basic desired changes in public perception?
- The Santa Monica iteration of this summer staple is one of the most budget-conscious ones at $40 (proceeds benefit the Special Olympics), but if you want to go even lower there's the $5 Thrillist food truck rally in Hollywood (proceeds benefit Meals on Wheels).
- The period of experiments in economic and anti-clerical legislation was also marked by other important new laws, such as the ordinance of the staple of 1354, providing that wool, leather, and other commodities were only to be sold at certain _staple_ towns, a measure soon to be modified by the law of 1362, which settled the staple at Calais; the ordinance of 1357 for the government of Ireland, to which later reference will be made; the statute making English the language of the law courts in 1362, and a drastic act against purveyance in 1365.