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I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a staple crop (=an important one that forms a big part of people's diet)
▪ staple crops such as rice and wheat
sb’s staple diet (=the food that a group of people or type of animal normally eats)
▪ For hundreds of years potatoes were their staple diet.
staple gun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
diet
▪ Attacks on the immorality and decadence of aristocratic culture were the staple diet of purity tracts and speeches.
▪ The staple diet for most of the coral fishes should be a good dry food.
▪ It is hard and lacks nutrients and yet is the panda's staple diet.
▪ Worms are a staple diet and these have been in short supply due to the summer drought.
▪ They could catch and eat more of their staple diet - worms and insects - surviving in accordance with the laws of natural selection.
▪ In living-rooms throughout the country, violence, gratuitous and graphic, is often the staple diet of the video generation.
▪ Reindeer moss, the staple diet of the deer herds, was also said to have disappeared completely.
food
▪ Retail prices of staple foods and consumer goods remained unchanged.
▪ The staple food of mankind in the Middle Ages was bread, and his staple drink ale or water.
▪ They may also be following the migration of their staple food, anchovies.
▪ The fortification of staple foods with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects may be unwisely delayed on this account.
▪ A recently-introduced ban on the fishing of sand eels, the birds' staple food, has been credited with the success.
VERB
become
▪ It rapidly became a staple, and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period.
▪ The Food Lion suit has been closely watched because hidden-camera reports have become a popular staple of network newsmagazine shows.
▪ It was what we know as recitative and it became the staple of opera in musica.
▪ So what should have become a staple of the science diet has turned into the Christmas turkey of the curriculum.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ice skating has long been a staple of ABC's sports programming.
▪ Tortillas are a staple of Mexican cooking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternative medicine is now a staple of continuing education at Harvard University Medical School.
▪ It is a staple of the multilateral trading system, and is extended by the United States to all but a handful.
▪ Rape is a staple in pagan myth, and killing still more commonplace.
▪ The length of the cable then rests on the staples and can always be lifted off for painting and cleaning.
▪ There are some assured visual touches, a staple of any Czech film.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a schoolboy prank he leaned forward to staple the boy in front's jacket to his chair.
▪ Finally, staple them together and flip through them to see them move.
▪ Industry magazines have thinned down so much with the collapse of internet advertising that they can now be stapled rather than bound.
▪ Select the ones that have held bottles, because they will be stapled at the bottom and are much stronger.
▪ There was a credit-card slip stapled to the receipt and I tucked both in my pocket for later inspection.
▪ We had to staple a polythene vapour barrier to the rafters of a pitched roof.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In Brazil, the black bean is a staple crop.

staple

I. sta‧ple¹ /ˈsteɪpəl/ noun [COUNTABLE]
Sense 1-2: Language : Old English; Origin : stapol 'post']
Sense 3-4: Origin : . 1300-1400 Middle Dutch stapel 'place of trade']
1. a small piece of thin wire that is pushed into sheets of paper and bent over to hold them together

2. a small U-shaped piece of metal with pointed ends, used to hold something in place

3. a food that is needed and used all the time:
　 ▪ staples like flour and rice

4. the main product that is produced in a country:
　 ▪ Bananas and sugar are the staples of Jamaica.

II. staple² verb [TRANSITIVE]
to fasten two or more things together with a staple
staple something together
　 ▪ The handouts are all stapled together.
staple something to something
　 ▪ I stapled the order form to the invoice.
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THESAURUS
▪fasten to join together the two sides of a piece of clothing, bag, belt etc :
　 ▪ He fastened the necklace behind her neck.
▪attach to fasten something firmly to another object or surface, using screws, nails, tape, glue etc :
　 ▪ The boards were attached with screws.
　 ▪ The prisoner was attached to the wall with chains.
▪join to connect or fasten things together :
　 ▪ Join the pieces using a strong glue
▪glue to join things together using glue :
　 ▪ Glue the fabric to the white card.
▪tape to fasten something using tape :
　 ▪ The students' name cards were taped to the table.
▪staple to fasten something using staples (=a small piece of wire that is pressed through paper using a special machine) :
　 ▪ Don't staple your resumé to your cover letter.
▪clip to fasten things together using a clip (=a small metal object) :
　 ▪ A photo was clipped to the letter.
▪tie to fasten a tie, shoelaces etc by making a knot :
　 ▪ Don't forget to tie your shoelaces!
▪do something up especially British English to fasten a piece of clothing or the buttons etc on it :
　 ▪ The teacher doesn't have time to do up every child's coat.
　 ▪ Let me do it up for you.
▪button (up) to fasten a shirt, coat etc with buttons :
　 ▪ His shirt was buttoned right to the top.
▪zip (up) to fasten a piece of clothing, a bag etc with a zip :
　 ▪ Zip up your jacket, it's cold.
▪buckle (up) to fasten a seat belt, belt, shoe etc that has a buckle (=small metal object that fits through a hole in a strap) :
　 ▪ The little girl struggled to buckle her shoes.
▪unfasten/untie/undo/unbutton/unzip to open something that is fastened :
　 ▪ Do not unfasten your seatbelt until the car has stopped completely.

III. staple³ adjective [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
1. forming the greatest or most important part of something:
　 ▪ Oil is Nigeria’s staple export.
　 ▪ a staple ingredient of comedy

2. staple diet

a) the food that you normally eat
staple diet of
　 ▪ They live on a staple diet of rice and vegetables.
b) something that is always being produced, seen, bought etc
staple diet of
　 ▪ television’s staple diet of soap operas and quiz shows

3. used all the time:
　 ▪ Marty’s staple excuses