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Meaning staple meaning

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Definitions in simple English

staple Noun

— A staple is a very basic and important supply of something. Rice is an important staple in many Asian countries. — A staple is a tool used to fasten stacks of paper securely together.

staple

— noun (= basic) (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant — noun paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together — noun a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables — noun (= staple fiber, staple fibre) a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn staple fibers vary widely in length — adjective necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities wheat is a staple crop — verb secure or fasten with a staple or staples staple the papers together — noun (= raw material) material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

Synonyms staple synonyms

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staple English » English

clamp parenthesis brace basic holdfast hasp cramp bracket staple fibre staple fiber raw material principal main texture stitch step prime main product leading fiber chief wool wick web underlying substance stuffing stud string stapling nail staple pin staple food staple bolt sort sew rudimentary roughage rivet primary primal pith peg paramount metal ring material master marrow lint lead hook

Topics staple topics

What do people use staple to talk about?
Daily life Food

Types of food
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

Conjugation staple conjugation

How do you conjugate staple?

staple · verb

Examples staple examples

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Simple sentences

Instant noodles are a staple among college students.
This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.

Movie subtitles

Because Valencia is Mexican and I'm Filipino and rice is a staple in both of our.
A staple, like wheat.
Water runs off the maple Love is like my staple.
Staple food of the Russian navy.
Staple diet.
Tell you what, though, I'll lop its back legs off, make good, strip the fur, stick a couple of wings on- and staple on a beak of your own choice.
It's amazing what she did with a few throw pillows, some wallpaper, and a staple gun.
And if you don't open your eyes, I'll staple your eyelids to your forehead.
If you staple that little mouse, I'll call the Humane Society. I'm not kidding.
You are looking at a guy who told someone today to staple antlers to a mouse's head to further my career.
I find one more. just one. I'm gonna catch him and staple his ass shut!
Keep those eyes closed, or lll staple them shut.
Milk, e staple for the entire family. And just one of the products Chess Chemical is working to improve.
I have Ramon and Cesar staple your tongue to your chin!
I hope you didn't bend, staple or mutilate that card.
Strip the fur, stick a couple of wings on and staple on a beak of your own choice.
The Staple Singers!
We can rest easy on the staple front. We got plenty.
Please remove the staple from my fender.
It's amazing what she did with a few throw pillows some wallpaper and a staple gun.
Staple of small-town America. We're in good hands.
Two Staple Street.
Would use a staple gun if I could.
If you staple that mouse, I'll call the Humane Society.
You're looking at a guy who told someone today to staple antlers to a mouse's head to further my career.
You know what Staple says: the human mind is like Salome at the beginning of her dance.
I am Oliver B. Barn staple.
So I can staple my license. to Homer Simpson's big bald head!
Well, uh, beans were a staple of the Israelites. Yes, proceed.
Transformations are a basic staple of mythology.
It's one, two, three, four. You fold it, put the staple. That's it.
Milk is a staple.
I let a staple go bad.
That was good about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.
The only way you'll look like that is if I staple the picture to your head.

News and current affairs

Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
More research is also needed to improve the nutritional quality of staple foods by fortifying them with iron, vitamin A, and zinc to help solve widespread micronutrient deficiencies.
LONDON - Fiscal austerity has become such a staple of conventional wisdom in the United Kingdom that anyone in public life who challenges it is written off as a dangerous leftist.
But we do know that, like the late 19th-century boom in trade in staple goods fueled by the iron-hulled ocean-going steamship and the submarine telegraph, it will.
To be sure, handing out vitamin pills or adding vitamin A to staple products can make a difference.
These are not space-age technologies, but staple goods that the world needs.
That great staple of political rhetoric appears to have been buried across the developing world.
While Central and Eastern Europe has been the emerging-market region to suffer the most in the crisis, it has generally avoided the currency collapses, systemic banking failures, and spikes in inflation that were the staple of previous crises.
Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations' most basic needs: safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.
In theory, we could simply supplement children's diets with vitamin A in capsules, or add it to some staple foodstuff, the way that we add iodine to table salt to prevent hypothyroidism and goiter.
Politicians often seek to shield consumers through price controls on staple foods and energy.
But now the question of Europe's borders has become a staple of debate in the European Union.
This sort of manipulation is now a Kremlin staple.
Of course, the reforms announced by the government were the simulated sort that have been a staple of Putin's rule.
It was only later, starting perhaps with the Eichmann trial in 1961, that the Holocaust became a staple of state propaganda.
Today, they have become a staple of policymakers' toolkits.
The costs of the government's failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country's staple.
Rather than risking mockery with outlandish claims - a staple of Soviet propagandists - that Russia will one day surpass the West economically, Surkov taps a deeper and safer emotion: fear.

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