Staple vs Body - What's the difference?
staple | body |
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.
* Arbuthnot
* Sir Walter Scott
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 73:
(by extension) Place of supply; source.
* Macaulay
The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
* Trench
* 1929 , , , Chapter VIII, Section ii:
A basic or essential supply.
A recurring topic or character.
* 2010 , The Economist , Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27:
Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
Unmanufactured material; raw material.
To sort according to its staple.
Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
Fit to be sold; marketable.
Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
* Hallam
A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
(mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
A small pit.
A district granted to an abbey.
To secure with a staple.
Physical frame.
# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
# A corpse.
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#* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 463:
#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
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, title= Main section.
# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
# A bodysuit.
# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Coherent group.
# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
# Any physical object or material thing.
# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
#* 2012' March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
As nouns the difference between staple and body
is that staple is 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 or staple can be a wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around while body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children.As a verb staple
is to sort according to its staple or staple can be to secure with a staple.As an adjective staple
is relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.staple
English
Etymology 1
(The Staple) From (etyl) estaple, (etyl) . Compare staff.Noun
(en noun)- The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.
- 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.
- Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple , the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.
- Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumour that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head.
- We should now say, Cotton is the great staple , that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester.
- The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
- Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.
- In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple .
- Tow is flax with short staple .
Verb
(stapl)- to staple cotton
Adjective
(-)- a staple town
- a staple trade
- (Dryden)
- (Swift)
- wool, the great staple commodity of England
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) , from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?
- The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
- Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
- (Camden)
Verb
(stapl)Derived terms
* staplerAnagrams
* ----body
English
(wikipedia body)Noun
{{picdic, image= Human body features-nb.svg , detail1= 1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7= 8= 9= 10-14= 15-19= }}- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body
's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
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- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- The boxer took a blow to the body .
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
World's largest extrusive '''bodyof sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)See also
* corporal * corporealVerb
- I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.
References
*Compact Oxford English Dictionary*
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