| slovo | definícia |
staple
(encz) | staple,skoba n: Zdeněk Brož |
staple
(encz) | staple,skobka n: Zdeněk Brož |
staple
(encz) | staple,spona n: Zdeněk Brož |
staple
(encz) | staple,svorka n: Zdeněk Brož |
staple
(encz) | staple,základní zboží Zdeněk Brož |
Staple
(gcide) | Staple \Sta"ple\ (st[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. stapul, stapol, stapel, a
step, a prop, post, table, fr. stapan to step, go, raise;
akin to D. stapel a pile, stocks, emporium, G. stapela heap,
mart, stake, staffel step of a ladder, Sw. stapel, Dan.
stabel, and E. step; cf. OF. estaple a mart, F. ['e]tape. See
Step.]
1. 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.
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The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having
been the staple of the Indian trade. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
For the increase of trade and the encouragement of
the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was
minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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Note: In England, formerly, the king's staple was established
in certain ports or towns, and certain goods could not
be exported without being first brought to these places
to be rated and charged with the duty payable to the
king or the public. The principal commodities on which
customs were levied were wool, skins, and leather; and
these were originally the staple commodities.
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2. Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
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Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news.
Whenever there was a rumor that any thing important
had happened or was about to happen, people hastened
thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain
head. --Macaulay.
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3. 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.
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We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that
is, the established merchandise, of Manchester.
--Trench.
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4. The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
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5. Unmanufactured material; raw material.
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6. The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse
staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
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7. A loop of metal such as 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.
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8. Specifically: A small loop of metal such as steel, bent
into a U-shape with the points sharpened, used to fasten
sheets of paper together by driving the staple[8] through
the stacked sheets and into a formed receptacle which
curls the ends in and backward, thus holding the papers
firmly together; also, a similar, slightly larger such
fastener which may be driven into wood to fasten objects
to a wooden backing.
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9. (Mining)
(a) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one,
joining different levels.
(b) A small pit.
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10. A district granted to an abbey. [Obs.] --Camden.
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Staple
(gcide) | Staple \Sta"ple\, a.
1. Pertaining to, or being a market or staple for,
commodities; as, a staple town. [R.]
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2. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled;
as, a staple trade. --Dryden.
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3. Fit to be sold; marketable. [R.] --Swift.
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4. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities;
belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
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Wool, the great staple commodity of England.
--Hallam.
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staple
(gcide) | staple \sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. stapled (-p'ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. stapling.]
1. To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
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2. To fasten together with a staple[9] or staples; as, to
staple a check to a letter.
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staple
(wn) | staple
adj 1: necessary or important, especially regarding food or
commodities; "wheat is a staple crop"
n 1: (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is
constant [syn: basic, staple]
2: a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be
twisted to form yarn; "staple fibers vary widely in length"
[syn: staple, staple fiber, staple fibre]
3: material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing [syn:
raw material, staple]
4: a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
5: paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire
that can fasten papers together
v 1: secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the
papers together" [ant: unstaple] |
staple
(foldoc) | 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.
(2003-02-28)
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staple
(foldoc) | Staple
St Andrews Applicative Persistent Language.
Language combining functional programming with persistent
storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Tony Davie, .
(2007-03-22)
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STAPLE
(bouvier) | 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.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
long-staple
(encz) | long-staple, adj: |
staple gun
(encz) | staple gun,nastřelovací pistole pro nastřelování hřebíků metan |
staple remover
(encz) | staple remover,rozešívačka n: Ivan Masár |
stapled
(encz) | stapled,přišitý Pavel Machek |
staplegun
(encz) | staplegun, n: |
stapler
(encz) | stapler,sešívačka n: na papír hh |
staples
(encz) | staples,hlavní produkty Zdeněk Brož |
stapleton
(encz) | Stapleton,Stapleton n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
unstaple
(encz) | unstaple, v: |
wool stapler
(encz) | wool stapler, n: |
stapleton
(czen) | Stapleton,Stapletonn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
pinned stapled
(gcide) | affixed \affixed\ adj.
1. attached physically. Opposite of unaffixed.
Note: Various more specific adjectives meaning affixed are:
appendant , {basifixed, fastened, secured, {glued,
pasted, stuck to(predicate) , {pegged-down , {pinned,
stapled , taped to(predicate), {mounted .
[WordNet 1.5] |
Staple
(gcide) | Staple \Sta"ple\ (st[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. stapul, stapol, stapel, a
step, a prop, post, table, fr. stapan to step, go, raise;
akin to D. stapel a pile, stocks, emporium, G. stapela heap,
mart, stake, staffel step of a ladder, Sw. stapel, Dan.
stabel, and E. step; cf. OF. estaple a mart, F. ['e]tape. See
Step.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having
been the staple of the Indian trade. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
For the increase of trade and the encouragement of
the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was
minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In England, formerly, the king's staple was established
in certain ports or towns, and certain goods could not
be exported without being first brought to these places
to be rated and charged with the duty payable to the
king or the public. The principal commodities on which
customs were levied were wool, skins, and leather; and
these were originally the staple commodities.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
[1913 Webster]
Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news.
Whenever there was a rumor that any thing important
had happened or was about to happen, people hastened
thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain
head. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that
is, the established merchandise, of Manchester.
--Trench.
[1913 Webster]
4. The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
[1913 Webster]
5. Unmanufactured material; raw material.
[1913 Webster]
6. The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse
staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
[1913 Webster]
7. A loop of metal such as 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.
[1913 Webster]
8. Specifically: A small loop of metal such as steel, bent
into a U-shape with the points sharpened, used to fasten
sheets of paper together by driving the staple[8] through
the stacked sheets and into a formed receptacle which
curls the ends in and backward, thus holding the papers
firmly together; also, a similar, slightly larger such
fastener which may be driven into wood to fasten objects
to a wooden backing.
[1913 Webster]
9. (Mining)
(a) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one,
joining different levels.
(b) A small pit.
[1913 Webster]
10. A district granted to an abbey. [Obs.] --Camden.
[1913 Webster]Staple \Sta"ple\, a.
1. Pertaining to, or being a market or staple for,
commodities; as, a staple town. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
2. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled;
as, a staple trade. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. Fit to be sold; marketable. [R.] --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
4. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities;
belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
[1913 Webster]
Wool, the great staple commodity of England.
--Hallam.
[1913 Webster]staple \sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. stapled (-p'ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. stapling.]
1. To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fasten together with a staple[9] or staples; as, to
staple a check to a letter.
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staple gun
(gcide) | staple gun \sta"ple gun`\, n.
A device used to drive a heavy staple[8] through multiple
objects, so as to fasten them together; it has a spring
mechanism which stores force as a lever is pulled by the
operator's hand, and the force is released all at once to
drive the staple fully into the object to be fastened.
[PJC] |
stapled
(gcide) | staple \sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. stapled (-p'ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. stapling.]
1. To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fasten together with a staple[9] or staples; as, to
staple a check to a letter.
[PJC] |
Stapler
(gcide) | Stapler \Sta"pler\ (-pl[~e]r), n.
1. A dealer in staple goods.
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2. One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
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3. A device used to drive a staple[8] into objects so as to
fasten them together.
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Statute staple
(gcide) | Statute \Stat"ute\ (-[-u]t), n. [F. statut, LL. statutum, from
L. statutus, p. p. of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr.
status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See
Stand, and cf. Constitute, Destitute.]
1. An act of the legislature of a state or country,
declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a
positive law; the written will of the legislature
expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; --
used in distinction from common law. See Common law,
under Common, a. --Bouvier.
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Note: Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a
legislative body consisting of representatives. In
monarchies, the laws of the sovereign are called
edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. In works
on international law and in the Roman law, the term is
used as embracing all laws imposed by competent
authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into
statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed;
statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal
to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes of
property.
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2. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a
permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
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3. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by
statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also
statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. --Halliwell.
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Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts.
--Blackstone.
Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because
enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf
of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above.
Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the
public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in
certain English colonies.
Statute merchant (Eng. Law), a bond of record pursuant to
the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on
which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be
awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor,
and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the
rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; --
called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into
disuse. --Tomlins. --Bouvier.
Statute mile. See under Mile.
Statute of limitations (Law), a statute assigning a certain
time, after which rights can not be enforced by action.
Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the
mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may,
on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body,
lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute
merchant. It is now disused. --Blackstone.
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Syn: Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law.
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Wool staple
(gcide) | Wool \Wool\ (w[oo^]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to
D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld,
Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr.
[=u]r[.n][=a] wool, v[.r] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf.
Flannel, Velvet.]
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1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which
grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in
fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied
to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most
essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate
climates.
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Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.
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2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
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Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense,
curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
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Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass.
Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.
Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or
extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen
cloth.
Wool comber.
(a) One whose occupation is to comb wool.
(b) A machine for combing wool.
Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum)
with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling
malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the
wool of goats and sheep.
Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought
to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
Wool stapler.
(a) One who deals in wool.
(b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its
adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool
into bundles to be packed for sale.
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Wool stapler
(gcide) | Wool \Wool\ (w[oo^]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to
D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld,
Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr.
[=u]r[.n][=a] wool, v[.r] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf.
Flannel, Velvet.]
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1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which
grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in
fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied
to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most
essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate
climates.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.
[1913 Webster]
2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
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Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense,
curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
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Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass.
Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool.
Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or
extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen
cloth.
Wool comber.
(a) One whose occupation is to comb wool.
(b) A machine for combing wool.
Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum)
with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling
malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the
wool of goats and sheep.
Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought
to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
Wool stapler.
(a) One who deals in wool.
(b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its
adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool
into bundles to be packed for sale.
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clive staples lewis
(wn) | Clive Staples Lewis
n 1: English critic and novelist; author of theological works
and of books for children (1898-1963) [syn: Lewis, {C. S.
Lewis}, Clive Staples Lewis] |
long-staple
(wn) | long-staple
adj 1: having relatively long fibers; "long-staple cotton" |
long-staple cotton
(wn) | long-staple cotton
n 1: cotton with relatively long fibers |
short-staple cotton
(wn) | short-staple cotton
n 1: cotton with relatively short fibers |
staple fiber
(wn) | staple fiber
n 1: a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be
twisted to form yarn; "staple fibers vary widely in length"
[syn: staple, staple fiber, staple fibre] |
staple fibre
(wn) | staple fibre
n 1: a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be
twisted to form yarn; "staple fibers vary widely in length"
[syn: staple, staple fiber, staple fibre] |
staple gun
(wn) | staple gun
n 1: a hand-held machine for driving staples home [syn: {staple
gun}, staplegun, tacker] |
staplegun
(wn) | staplegun
n 1: a hand-held machine for driving staples home [syn: {staple
gun}, staplegun, tacker] |
stapler
(wn) | stapler
n 1: a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in
order to fasten them together [syn: stapler, {stapling
machine}] |
unstaple
(wn) | unstaple
v 1: take the staples off; "unstaple the piece of paper from the
receipt" [ant: staple] |
wool stapler
(wn) | wool stapler
n 1: a dealer in wool
2: a person who sorts wool into different grades [syn: {wool
stapler}, woolsorter] |
STAPLE
(bouvier) | 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.
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STATUTES STAPLE
(bouvier) | STATUTES STAPLE, English law. The statute of the staple, 27 Ed. HI. stat. 2,
confined the sale of all commodities to be exported to certain towns in
England, called estaple or staple, where foreigners might resort. It
authorized a security for money, commonly called statute staple, to be taken
by traders for the benefit of commerce; the mayor of the place is entitled
to take a recognizance of a debt, in proper form, which has the effect to
convey the lands of the debtor to the creditor, till out of the rents and
profits of them he may be satisfied. 2 Bl. Com. 160; Cruise, Dig. tit. 14,
s. 10; 2 Rolle's Ab. 446; Bac. Ab. Execution, B. 1 4 Inst. 238.
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