Learn English – the filling of the stapler called in English? (picture attached)
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What is the filling of the stapler called in English? (you can see it in red circle in the attached picture).
I looked for this word in my native dictionary but I didn't find this word.
Best Answer
I'd just call them "staples".
A set of staples joined together like this can be referred to as a "staple strip" or a "strip of staples", as in Eran's answer, but English speakers don't use this term very often. Instead, most speakers simply refer to them as "staples" in normal speech.
That doesn't mean you can't talk about strips of staples. You can talk about whether a stapler takes half strips or full strips, for example – the shorter ones take half strips. But in common speech, it's usually most natural to just say "staples".
Are you talking about a single piece of paper, that's not attached to a book? If so, don't use either "page" or "blank page", because a page is a sheet of paper bound inside a book. Technically, a page of paper is only one side of a sheet. If you wanted to talk about the sides of a single loose piece of paper, you'd just say the "side of the paper". Thus "page" is not used in the context of single pieces of paper.
You could use:
(blank) sheet of paper
(blank) piece of paper
And because "sheet" is so specific of a word, sometimes people drop "of paper" in "sheet of paper"
(blank) sheet
I guess you could technically do the same with "piece of paper", but "piece" is too vague, so people don't usually drop "of paper".
P.S.
Wikipedia tells me the technical term is a "leaf of paper", but nobody says that in daily use.
Best Answer
I'd just call them "staples".
A set of staples joined together like this can be referred to as a "staple strip" or a "strip of staples", as in Eran's answer, but English speakers don't use this term very often. Instead, most speakers simply refer to them as "staples" in normal speech.
That doesn't mean you can't talk about strips of staples. You can talk about whether a stapler takes half strips or full strips, for example – the shorter ones take half strips. But in common speech, it's usually most natural to just say "staples".