meaning of staples
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
17. Staple Saint Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language combining functional programming with persistent storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie,
18. usually plural a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
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