• Dutch: haak
• Finnish: askelma
• Icelandic: hefti , kengur , vírhefti
• Polish: klamra

• ttbc French: agraphe

Verb

1. To secure with a staple.

Translations

Derived terms

• stapler

Etymology 3

Noun

1. The length of the fibers in cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, a measure of its usefulness for spinning
   • Tow is flax with short staple.

Translations

Staple may mean:

• Staple (fastener), a formed metal fastener used to secure sheets of material or wires, so they will not fall apart of each other.
• Staple food, a foodstuff that forms the basic constituent of a diet. It is a standard commodity rather than a speciality item. This meaning is often extended to cover other areas besides food (a rollercoaster is a theme park staple)
• Surgical staple, used in surgery to close wounds
• Staple (textiles) is the raw material, or its length and quality, of fibre from which textiles are made. It is the material in its standard form as a traded commodity.
• Staple (wool), wool fibres that naturally form themselves into locks that held together by cross fibres.
• Staple (music), the foundation upon which a reed is constructed. A small cylindrical piece of metal (copper) tubing used to support the cane reeds. The reeds are fastened to the Staple using a copper wire or other suitable material. Staples are used for other type reeds such as oboe, bassoon and similar double reeded instruments.
• STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics, minicomics, and other independent media
• STAPLE (programming language) - A programming language written at Manchester 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.

Musical groups

• The Staple Singers, a United States gospel, soul, and R&B singing group
• Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band

Places

• Staple ports were medieval concept for a port in which trade was regulated, usually by the King, often restricting the particular trade to a specific group or port
  • 'The staple' was the staple port where wool exports were traded. From 1363 to 1558, this was at Calais.
  • Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, another city named in this way, but in its French form
• Staple rights were a somewhat related but different medieval concept which forced river merchants to offer their goods for sale at a city before being allowed to proceed with the remainder of their goods
• Staple, Kent, a village in Kent, England near Sandwich
• Staple, Louisiana

See also

• Staples

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