Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
- 5noun
Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- 6noun
The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- 9noun
A small pit.
- 10noun
A district granted to an abbey.
- 11adjective
Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
- 12adjective
Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
- 13adjective
Fit to be sold; marketable.
- 14adjective
Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- 15transitive verb
To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
- 16noun
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
Synonyms
- 17noun
paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- 18noun
a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
- 19noun
material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- 20noun
a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
"staple fibers vary widely in length"
- 21verb
secure or fasten with a staple or staples
"staple the papers together"
- 22adjective
necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
"wheat is a staple crop"
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