STAPLE
\stˈe͡ɪpə͡l], \stˈeɪpəl], \s_t_ˈeɪ_p_əl]\
Definitions of STAPLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1985 - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
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material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
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secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together"
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paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
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a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
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necessary foods or commodities; "wheat is a staple crop"
By Princeton University
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(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
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material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
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secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together"
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paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
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a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
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necessary foods or commodities; "wheat is a staple crop"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
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Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
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The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
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The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
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Unmanufactured material; raw material.
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The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
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A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
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A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
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A small pit.
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A district granted to an abbey.
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Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
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Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
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Fit to be sold; marketable.
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Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
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To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
By Oddity Software
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The chief product or industry of a country or district; principal element or chief item; unmanufactured or raw material; cotton, flax, or wool fiber; a loop of metal with two points to be driven into wood, etc., for holding a bolt, etc.
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Chief; regularly produced; as, staple goods; established in commerce; as, staple trade.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(orig.) A settled mart or market: the principal production or industry of a district or country: the principal element: the thread of textile fabrics: unmanufactured material: a loop of iron for holding a pin, bolt, etc.
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Established in commence: regularly produced for market.
By Daniel Lyons
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Important or chief article of trade; fibre of wool, cotton, &c.
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Loop of iron for holding a pin, padlock, &c.
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Principal; in regular demand.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Regularly and constantly produced or sold.
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A well established article of commerce.
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A chief element.
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The fiber of cotton or wool.
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Raw material.
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A U shaped piece of metal with pointed ends.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A programming language written at Manchester(University?) and used at ICL in the early 1970s for writingthe test suites. STAPLE was based on Algol 68 and had avery advanced optimising compiler.
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St Andrews Applicative Persistent Language.Language combining functional programming with persistentstorage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland.Tony Davie, .
By Denis Howe
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st[=a]'pl, n. a settled mart or market: the principal production or industry of a district or country: the principal element: the thread of textile fabrics: unmanufactured material.--adj. established in commerce: regularly produced for market.--n. ST[=A]'PLER, a dealer. [O. Fr. estaple--Low Ger. stapel, a heap.]
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st[=a]'pl, n. a loop of iron, &c., for holding a bolt, &c.: the metallic tube to which the reed is fastened in the oboe, &c. [A.S. stapel, a prop--stapan, step; cf. Ger. stapel.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Hoop-shaped bar or piece of wire with pointed ends for driving into post &c. to take point of hook, hasp, &c.; box-shaped part into which lock of door &c. shuts; metal tube holding the reeds of oboe& similar instruments; bent wire used in wire-stitching; (v.t.) furnish, fasten, with s.; stapling machine, bookbinder\'s wire-stitching machine. [old English]
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Important or principle article of commerce, as the ss. of that country, of British industry; raw material; (fig.) chief element or material, as formed the s. of conversation; fibre of cotton, wool, &c., viewed as determining its quality, as cotton of fine, short, s.; (adj.) s. (principal) commodities &c.; (v.t.) sort, classify, (wool, &c.) according to fibre, whence stapler n. [middle English]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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(See Staples.) A ventilating shaft sunk from the workings on one seam to those on a lower one.
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(See Staples.) The thread or pile of wool, cotton, or flax.
By Henry Percy Smith
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A settled mart or market; an emporium;-a principal commodity or production of a country or district;-hence, the principal element; the chief ingredient ; - the thread or pile of wool, cotton, or flax ;-a loop of metal formed with two points, to be driven into wood, to hold a hook;-unmanufactured material ; raw material.
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