Staple
['steɪp(ə)l] or ['stepl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together.
(noun.) a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables.
(noun.) a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn; 'staple fibers vary widely in length'.
(verb.) secure or fasten with a staple or staples; 'staple the papers together'.
(adj.) necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities; 'wheat is a staple crop' .
校對:瓦珥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
(n.) A small pit.
(n.) A district granted to an abbey.
(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
弗朗西斯整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Chief commodity (of a country or a district), principal production.[2]. Fibre (of cotton, wool, &c.), pile, filament.[3]. Raw material.[4]. Bulk, mass, body, substance, principal part, greater part.
a. Chief, principal.
整理:诺里斯
解釋/意思:
n. a loop of iron &c. for holding a bolt &c.: the metallic tube to which the reed is fastened in the oboe &c.
n. a settled mart or market: the principal production or industry of a district or country: the principal element: the thread of textile fabrics: unmanufactured material.—adj. established in commerce: regularly produced for market.—n. Stā′pler a dealer.
編輯:洛娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- We must approach him sooner or later, for he is the staple of what I have to say, and it's as well at once. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The subject of the growing of cotton came under discussion, and some one spoke of the unfortunate fact that no method had been found for cleaning the cotton staple of the green seed. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Plantation gangs began to oust the patch cultivation of the labourer-serf in the case of some staple products. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My little woman, says Mr. Snagsby to the sparrows in Staple Inn, likes to have her religion rather sharp, you see! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- By that machine only the long staple fibre was secured, leaving the cotton seed covered with a short fibre, which with the seed was regarded as a waste product. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To separate a single pound of the clean staple from the green seed took a whole day’s work for a woman. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The chimney is wide, but is barred up by four large staples. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The lightning will not leave the rod (a good conductor) through those staples. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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