staple
11staple — [adj] necessary, basic chief, essential, fundamental, important, in demand, key, main, popular, predominant, primary, principal, standard; concept 546 Ant. auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, unnecessary …
12Staple — 50° 44′ 55″ N 2° 27′ 12″ E / 50.7486, 2.4533 …
13staple — ▪ I. staple sta‧ple 1 [ˈsteɪpl] noun [countable] 1. OFFICE a small piece of thin wire that is pushed into sheets of paper and bent over to hold them together 2. a food that is needed and used all the time: • staples like flour and rice …
14staple — sta|ple1 [ˈsteıpəl] n [Sense: 1 2; Origin: Old English stapol post ] [Sense: 3 4; Date: 1300 1400; Origin: . Middle Dutch stapel place of trade ] 1.) a small piece of thin wire that is pushed into sheets of paper and bent over to hold them… …
15staple — [[t]ste͟ɪp(ə)l[/t]] staples, stapling, stapled 1) ADJ: ADJ n A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people s everyday lives. Rice is the staple food of more than half the world s population... The Chinese also… …
16staple — 01. Please [staple] your test sheet to your essay paper before handing it in. 02. I cut my finger on a [staple] during the test, and got blood all over the paper. 03. Rice is the most important [staple] in the diet of many Asian countries. 04.… …
17staple — A major commodity grown, traded and demanded; e.g. grain, salt, flour. Such commodity is usually very important to the local economy where it is grown or produced. Raw material. In English law, a mart or market. A place where the buying and… …
18staple — staple1 /stay peuhl/, n., v., stapled, stapling. n. 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… …
19staple — I UK [ˈsteɪp(ə)l] / US noun [countable] Word forms staple : singular staple plural staples * 1) a) a small piece of wire that you press through pieces of paper with a small object called a stapler so that the ends of the wire bend over and fasten …
20Staple EP — Infobox Album | Name = Staple EP Type = Album Artist = Staple Released = May 3, 2003 Recorded = Genre = metalcore Length = 21:10 Label = Independent Producer = Reviews = Last album = Staple (2002) This album = The Staple EP (2003) Next album =… …
