Staple: alternatives and connections

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

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To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fixed; solidified.

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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A dealer in staple goods.

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A dealer in staple goods.

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Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.