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staple
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?ste?.p?l/
- Rhymes: -e?p?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English staple, from Anglo-Norman estaple, Old French estaple (“market, (trading) post”), from Late Latin stapula, from Middle Dutch stapel (“pillar; foundation; market”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *steb?- (“post, stem”). Compare staff.
Noun
staple (countable and uncountable, plural staples)
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 73:
- Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A recurring topic or character.
- 2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27:
- In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.
- 2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27:
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- Tow is flax with short staple.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
Translations
Verb
staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)
- (transitive) To sort according to its staple.
Adjective
staple (not comparable)
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- To ruin with worse ware our staple trade
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- What needy writer would not solicit to work under such masters, who will pay us beforehand, take off as much of our ware as we please, at our own rates, and trouble not themselves to examine, either before or after they have bought it, whether it be staple, or not.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages
- wool, the great staple commodity of England
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VIII, Section ii:
- The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
- 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages
Etymology 2
From Middle English stapel (“staple, pillar, post”), from Old English stapol (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steb?- (“post, stem”). See also Old English steppan (“to step”) and Old French estaple (“post”). Consider also stapes (“stirrup”), from Latin. Doublet of staple (etymology 1).
Noun
staple (plural staples)
- A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?
- A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- A small pit.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A post; prop; support
Translations
Verb
staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)
- (transitive) To secure with a staple.
Derived terms
- stapler
Translations
See also
- Staple Hill
Anagrams
- Patels, leptas, palest, palets, pastel, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, tepals
German
Verb
staple
- inflection of stapeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman staple (Old French estaple), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post, pillar; basis, foundation”). Doublet of stapel (“post, stake”).
Noun
staple (plural staples)
- staple (official market established by royal authority for selling export goods)
- staple (the town containing such market)
Alternative forms
- stapel, stapil, stapul
Descendants
- English: staple
- Scots: stapill, staple, steple
References
- “st?ple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
staple (plural staples)
- Alternative form of stapel
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attach
English
Etymology
From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
- Hyphenation: at?tach
Verb
attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
- Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate; see also Thesaurus:disconnect
- 1856, page 60 of "The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 3-4" by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
- A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- Synonyms: cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
- 1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- Dower will attach.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cooley to this entry?)
- To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
- attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- 1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature
- To this treasure a curse is attached.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- 1868, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Cameos from English History
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
Derived terms
- attachable
- attachment
- attacher
- get attached
Related terms
- attachment
Translations
Anagrams
- chatta
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