meaning of staple2

1. 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.
2.
Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
3.
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.
4.
The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
5.
Unmanufactured material; raw material.
6.
The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
7.
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.
8.
A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
9.
A small pit.
10.
A district granted to an abbey.
11.
Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
12.
Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
13.
Fit to be sold; marketable.
14.
Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
15.
To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
16.
STAPLE A programming language written at Manchester University? and used at ICL in the early 1970s for writing the test suites. STAPLE was based on Algol 68 and had a very advanced optimising compiler.
17.
Staple Saint Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language combining functional programming with persistent storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie, st-andrews. ac. uk>. STAR 0 Early system on Datatron 200 series. Listed in CACM 25:16 May 1959. StarBurst An active DBMS from IBM Almaden Research Center. StarLISP *LISP StarMOD *MOD star network A network topology where every node has a direct connection only to the central node, which might be a hub, switch, or server.
18.
usually plural a necessary commodity for which demand is constant


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