English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪplə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪplɚ/
Etymology 1
From staple (verb) + -er.
Noun
stapler (plural staplers)
- A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper.
- (loosely) Any device for stapling with (small or large) staples, including any office stapler, staple gun, or hammer tacker.
Derived terms
Translations
device which binds together paper
- Afrikaans: kramdrukker, krammasjien, krambinder
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: دَبَّاسَة f (dabbāsa)
- Armenian: կարիչ (karičʻ), ամրակիչ (amrakičʻ), ստեպլեր (hy) (stepler)
- Assamese: ইষ্টেবুল (istebul)
- Basque: grapagailu
- Belarusian: стэ́плер m (stépljer)
- Bulgarian: те́лбод (bg) m (télbod)
- Catalan: engrapadora f, grapadora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 釘書機 / 钉书机 (deng1 syu1 gei1)
- Mandarin: 訂書機 / 订书机 (zh) (dìngshūjī)
- Czech: svorkovač (cs) m, sešívačka (cs) f
- Danish: hæftemaskine c
- Dhivehi: ހީރަސް ދަތި (hīras dati)
- Dutch: nietmachine (nl) f, nietapparaat (nl) n, nieter (nl) m
- Esperanto: agrafilo
- Estonian: klammerdaja, klambrilööja, klammerdi
- Faroese: høna f
- Finnish: nitoja (fi)
- French: agrafeuse (fr) f, brocheuse (fr) f (Quebec)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Hefter (de) m, Heftgerät (de) n, Heftapparat (de) m, Heftmaschine (de) f, Tacker (de) m
- Greek: συρραπτικό (el) n (syrraptikó)
- Hebrew: מַכְלֵב (he) m (makhlev)
- Hungarian: tűzőgép (hu)
- Icelandic: heftari (is)
- Indonesian: jepretan (id) , pengokot
- Irish: stáplóir m
- Italian: spillatrice f, graffettatrice (it) f, cucitrice f
- Japanese: ホッチキス (ja) (hotchikisu), ステープラー (ja) (sutēpurā), 紙綴器 (kamitsuzuki)
- Khmer: ប្រដាប់កិប (prɑɑdap-kəp)
- Korean: 호치키스 (hochikiseu), 스테이플러 (seuteipeulleo), 지철기(紙綴器) (jicheolgi)
- Lao: ກາລາເຟີ (kā lā fœ̄)
- Latin: consutorium m
- Latvian: skavotājs m
- Lithuanian: vielasiūlė f
- Macedonian: хефталка f (heftalka)
- Malay: pengokot
- Malayalam: സ്റ്റാപ്ലർ (sṟṟāplaṟ)
- Maori: tēpara, pūwhakapinepine
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: үдээсний машин (üdeesnii mašin), үдүүр (mn) (üdüür) (Inner Mongolia)
- Mongolian: ᠦᠳᠡᠭᠡᠰᠦᠨ ᠦ
ᠮᠠᠱᠢᠨ (üdegesün-ü mašin), ᠦᠳᠡᠭᠦᠷ (üdegür)
- Norwegian: stiftemaskin m
- Ottoman Turkish: زنبه (zımba)
- Pashto: کاغز نيوونى
- Persian: منگنه (fa) (mangane)
- Polish: zszywacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: grampeador (pt) m (Brazil), agrafador (pt) f (Portugal)
- Romanian: capsator (ro) n
- Russian: сшива́тель (ru) m (sšivátelʹ), сте́плер (ru) m (stɛ́pler)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: спајалица f
- Roman: spajalica (sh) f
- Slovak: zošívačka f
- Slovene: spenjač m
- Spanish: abrochadora f (Argentina, Uruguay), corchetera f (Chile), cosedora f (Colombia), engrapador m (Peru), engrapadora f (Colombian Atlantic Coast, Mexico, Venezuela), grapadora f (Spain)
- Swahili: kibanizi
- Swedish: häftapparat (sv) c
- Tamil: கம்பிதைப்புக் கருவி (kampitaippuk karuvi)
- Thai: เครื่องเย็บกระดาษ, ที่เย็บกระดาษ
- Tibetan: དེབ་འཛེར་ཆས། (deb 'dzer chas)
- Tigrinya: ስተፕረ (sətäprä)
- Turkish: zımba (tr), tel zımba (tr)
- Ukrainian: сте́плер m (stépler), зшива́ч m (zšyváč)
- Vietnamese: dập ghim (𡏽針)
- Waray-Waray: estepler
- Welsh: staplwr m
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Etymology 2
From staple (noun) + -er.
Noun
stapler (plural staplers)
- (dated) A dealer in staple goods.
- Hypernyms: dealer, supplier, vendor
- Coordinate terms: grocer, victualler, provisioner, sutler, chandler
- (dated) One employed to sort wool according to its staple.
- Hypernyms: woolsorter < worker < person
Anagrams
- Alperts, Plaster, Platers, palster, palters, persalt, plaster, plastre, platers, psalter, replats