staple

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , ultimately from , from. Compare. and etymology 2.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Place of supply; source.
 * 3) The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
 * 4) A basic or essential supply.
 * 5) A recurring topic or character.
 * 6) Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
 * Tow is flax with short staple.
 * 1) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
 * 1) A basic or essential supply.
 * 2) A recurring topic or character.
 * 3) Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
 * Tow is flax with short staple.
 * 1) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
 * Tow is flax with short staple.
 * 1) Unmanufactured material; raw material.

Derived terms

 * staple character

Translations

 * Czech: základní zásoba
 * Dutch: basisbenodigdheid
 * Finnish: perustarvike
 * French: production principale
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: aðalframleiðsluvara, aðalverslunarvara, grunnvara, nauðsynjar, nauðsynjavörur
 * Irish: amhábhar, bunábhar
 * Italian: prodotto di base
 * Polish: podstawowy artykuł
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сѝровина
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, materia prima, producto principal
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: сировина́


 * Finnish: päätuote
 * Irish: príomh-amhábhar, príomhtháirge
 * Italian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: základní potravina
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: peruselintarvike
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: uppistaða, uppistöðumatur, uppistöðuefni, hráefni
 * Italian: alimento base
 * Korean:
 * Polish: podstawowe pożywienie
 * Russian: основно́й проду́кт пита́ния
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сѝровина
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: alimento básico, alimento de primera necesidad
 * Turkish: temel besin, temel gıda
 * Welsh: prif fwyd


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: hörtrefjar, ullarþræðir, baðmullarþræðir
 * Polish: stapel

Verb

 * 1)  To sort according to its staple.

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
 * 2) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
 * 3) Fit to be sold; marketable.
 * 4) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
 * 1) Fit to be sold; marketable.
 * 2) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
 * 1) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
 * 1) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

See also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Consider also, from. and etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1) A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
 * 2) A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
 * Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?
 * 1) A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
 * The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
 * 1) One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
 * Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
 * 1)  A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
 * 2) A small pit.
 * 3) A district granted to an abbey.
 * 4)  A post; prop; support
 * 1)  A post; prop; support
 * 1)  A post; prop; support

Translations

 * Afrikaans: krammetjie
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: телче
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 釘書釘
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: hæfteklamme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: agrafo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, paperiniitti
 * French:
 * Galician: grampa, galga
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: tűzőkapocs
 * Icelandic: hefti
 * Irish: stápla
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: គ្រាប់កិប
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Manx: lhoob yiarn
 * Maori: tēpara, makatiti
 * Mongolian:
 * Occitan:, agrafa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ลวดเย็บกระดาษ
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: stapl, staplen


 * Afrikaans: krammetjie
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, hakanen
 * French:
 * Galician: grampa
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hefti,, vírhefti
 * Maori: makatiti, tēpara
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: grampa
 * Icelandic: hefti, vírhefti
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tēpara
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: krampe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pikolete


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: hefti,, vírhefti
 * Maori: makatiti, tēpara, tia
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To secure with a staple.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: забождам с телбод
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: hæfte
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: grampar
 * Greek: συρράβω
 * Icelandic: hefta
 * Italian: pinzare
 * Khmer:
 * Maori: makatiti, whakapinepine
 * Polish: zszyć
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 1
Borrowed from (🇨🇬), from. .

Noun

 * 1) staple
 * 2) staple