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What is the noun for staples?

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staple
  1. A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
  2. A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
  3. A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
  4. One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
  5. (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
  6. A small pit.
  7. A district granted to an abbey.
  8. (obsolete) A post; prop; support
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  10. Examples:
    1. “Carefully lift the staple remover upward to remove the staple from the incision line.”
      “What forms the staple of his book is the exposition and criticism of naturalism.”
      “Although I can eat both macaroni and sardines again, they are no longer a staple when it comes to backpacking meals.”
staple
  1. (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.
  2. (by extension) Place of supply; source.
  3. The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
  4. A basic or essential supply.
  5. A recurring topic or character.
  6. Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
  7. Unmanufactured material; raw material.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Carefully lift the staple remover upward to remove the staple from the incision line.”
      “What forms the staple of his book is the exposition and criticism of naturalism.”
      “Although I can eat both macaroni and sardines again, they are no longer a staple when it comes to backpacking meals.”
stapler
  1. (dated) A dealer in staple goods.
  2. (dated) One employed to sort wool according to its staple.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Please hand me the stapler so I can attach these documents together with metal staples.”
      “Casey delighted in rifling through the pencil case to examine every stapler, every pencil sharpener and oddly shaped eraser.”
      “One is littered with papers, books, CDs, a phone, a stapler, several pens, a box of business cards, etc.”
stapler
  1. A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Please hand me the stapler so I can attach these documents together with metal staples.”
      “Casey delighted in rifling through the pencil case to examine every stapler, every pencil sharpener and oddly shaped eraser.”
      “One is littered with papers, books, CDs, a phone, a stapler, several pens, a box of business cards, etc.”
stapling
staplings
staplers
  1. plural of stapler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They also took paper, pens, pencils, staplers, white paper and a box cutter.”
      “Suddenly we had to move to a different house, but I got lots of free paper and staplers and pens from Dad's old office.”
      “You'll be sickened by what four young men can get up to with just a few bull whips, staplers, drawing pins, gaffer tape, sandpaper and hammers.”
staples
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