What is another word for stapled?

Pronunciation: [stˈe͡ɪpə͡ld] (IPA)

The word "stapled" refers to the action of attaching two or more things together using a staple or a series of staples. Some synonyms for the word "stapled" include fastened, affixed, secured, nailed, clamped, and attached. These words are often used interchangeably in different contexts to describe the same action of joining materials together. For example, you may use a stapler to attach a series of papers together, but you could also use a paper clip or binder clip to secure them. Similarly, furniture can be assembled using nails, screws, or other types of fasteners. Ultimately, the choice of word depends on the materials and tools being used, as well as the desired level of permanence or strength in the resulting attachment.

What are the hypernyms for Stapled?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for stapled?

Stapled is a word that means to fasten or bind together using a metal or plastic clip. The antonyms for the word stapled would be to unfasten, detach, undo, release, or separate. Unfastening means to loosen or remove the staples from a document or papers. Detaching means to separate one part from another, such as removing a page from a stapled document. Undoing means to reverse a fastening or binding process. Releasing means to liberate or free from something that is holding it back, such as releasing a stapled paper. Separating means to pull or tear apart something that has been stapled together.

What are the antonyms for Stapled?

Usage examples for Stapled

He picked up a stapled sheaf of papers from his desk.
"The Sword"
Frank Quattrocchi
The next minute he was asleep with the stapled ruffians all around him."
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Artists have so diligently falsified the view, ad captandum, that you will have some difficulty in recognising so old a friend as the Logan: it is commonly drawn as if isolated, thus, and would so, no doubt, be very astonishing; but, when my memory puts it as above, stapled, and obliged to remain for Cockneys to log it, surrounded by a much more imposing brotherhood, my wonder only is that it keeps its lion character, and that, considering the easy explication of its natural cause or accident, it should ever have been conceived to be man's doing; perhaps the Druids availed themselves of so lucky a chance for miracle-mongering, but as to having contrived it, you might as well say that they built the cliffs.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Famous quotes with Stapled

  • I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
    Len Wein
  • I was totally amazed. This little home made underground comix thing was turning into a business before my eyes. It went from us going around Haight Street trying to sell these things we had folded and stapled ourselves to suddenly being a business with distributors, lawyers, contracts, and money talk. … The whole thing began to take on a heaviness that I believe had a negative effect on my work. I was only twenty-five years old when all this happened. It was a case of "too much too soon," I think. I became acutely self-conscious about what I was doing. Was I now a "spokesman" for the hippies or what? I had no idea how to handle my new position in society! … Take for example. is the curse of my life. This stupid little cartoon caught on hugely. … I didn't want to turn into a greeting card artist for the counter-culture! I didn't want to do 'shtick'—the thing Lenny Bruce warned against. That's when I started to let out all my perverse sex fantasies. It was the only way out of being "America's Best Loved Hippie Cartoonist."
    Robert Crumb

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