Noun | 1. | staple - (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant Synonyms: basic |
2. | staple - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing Synonyms: raw material | |
3. | staple - a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables | |
4. | staple - paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together | |
Verb | 1. | staple - secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together" Antonyms: unstaple - take the staples off; "unstaple the piece of paper from the receipt" |
Adj. | 1. | staple - necessary foods or commodities; "wheat is a staple crop" |
STAPLE, intern. law. The right of staple as exercised by a people upon
foreign merchants, is defined to be, that they may not allow them to set
their merchandises and wares to sale but in a certain place.
2. This practice is not in use in the United States. 1 Chit. Com. Law,
103; 4 Inst. 238; Malone, Lex Mere. 237; Bac. Ab. Execution, B 1. Vide
Statute Staple.
1. | (language) | STAPLE - A programming language written at Manchester (University?) 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. | |
2. | Staple - Saint Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language
combining functional programming with persistent storage,
developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie,
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