staple

staple is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
3. noun. 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. noun. The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
5. noun. Unmanufactured material; raw material.
6. noun. The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
7. noun. 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. noun. A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
9. noun. A small pit.
10. noun. A district granted to an abbey.
11. adjective. Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
12. adjective. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
13. adjective. Fit to be sold; marketable.
14. adjective. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
15. transitive verb. To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
16. noun. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

    Synonyms: basic

17. noun. paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
18. noun. a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
19. noun. material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
20. noun. a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn

    "staple fibers vary widely in length"

21. verb. secure or fasten with a staple or staples

    "staple the papers together"

22. adjective. necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities

    "wheat is a staple crop"

Synonyms

basic

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in staple:

palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, septal, tepals

Common word forms

stapled, stapler, staples, stapling

Words from these letters

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