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• Staple (fastener), a formed metal fastener used to secure sheets of material or wires
• 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.
• The Staple Singers, a United States gospel, soul, and R&B singing group
• Reed (music), the foundation upon which the 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 (band), a Christian post-hardcore band
• STAPLE!, a convention for creators of comics, minicomics, and other independent media
• STAPLE - 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.

A packet of staples commonly used in the home or office Staples in use, showing the front and the back side. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Surgical staples holding a knee replacement surgery wound closed. ... Two wool samples of different staple lengths A staple is a sample of the raw material for a textile. ... The Staple Singers were a United States gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. ... A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... Staple is a pop-metal group from Mechanicsburg, Ohio. ... STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo is an annual convention in Austin, Texas, United States, for alternative comics, minicomics, webcomics, zines, underground comics, and graphic arts. ... The initialism ICL may have several meanings: Image Cash Letter exchange, is the process through a law passed in October 2004, called Check 21, which permits banks to pass images back and forth rather than actual checks. ... ALGOL 68 (short for ALGOrithmic Language 1968) is an imperative computer programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and a more rigorously defined syntax and semantics. ... Compiler optimization techniques are optimization techniques that have been programmed into a compiler. ...

Places

• A staple port was one in which trade in specified goods was regulated. The term is a medieval one. Normally the king licensed a particular group of merchants to trade in the commodity, in an area such as his kingdom and their trading had to be done in the staple town or port.
• The staple was the staple port where wool exports were traded. From 1363 to 1558, this was at Calais.
• Staple, Nord (pronunciation: stohpl) is a commune in the Nord département of France. This is the name in its Flemish form.
• Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, is another place in which the word appears but in its French form
• Staple, Kent, a village in Kent, England near Sandwich

A staple port is a port designated by a government or monarch as a place where specific goods may be exported or imported. ... The staple was a system of trade and taxation used during the medieval period in England. ... Extent of Flemish in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk, 1874 and 1972 Nord (French: North) is a département in the north of France. ... Étaples is a commune and the chief town of a canton, in the arrondissement of Montreuil-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais département of northern France. ... Staple is a small village is east Kent. ...

See also

• Staples

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