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Title: What is the filling of the stapler called in English? (picture attached)
Question: 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.

Answers:
sents: text: I'd just call them "staples".
text: 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.
text: Instead, most speakers simply refer to them as "staples" in normal speech.
text: That doesn't mean you can't talk about strips of staples.
text: You can talk about whether a stapler takes half strips or full strips, for example – the shorter ones take half strips.
text: But in common speech, it's usually most natural to just say "staples".
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/230/snailplane
score: 90
sents: text: By the previous answers here, I found the following things: In Wikipedia they're called paper staples .
text: In Cambridge dictionary they're called simply staples .
text: Checking in google images shows that the boxes that contains them, call them simply staples .
text: ( See here for example)
text: Staple strips , by googling I found mainly as a term that can refer to paper staples, but not as name of product title for them but just generally referring to what it is called.
text: I found also that " staple strips " as a product title name refers mainly to the staples that are not for papers, but for example for thicker things than paper or fences etc.
text: For "paper staples strips" there are only 5 results in google.
text: Stapler needles is a name that less common in English speaking countries (for example, by googling I found 972 results , in which 46 results in the UK or 774 results in the US for "stapler needles").
text: I think it can tell everything about this usage.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/12430/Judicious Allure
score: 19
sents: text: They are called staples.
text: Definition from Merriam Webster dictionary here
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/65436/danielloid
score: 8
sents: text: In our office we call them staple sticks or staple cartridges .
text: But usually when you ask someone to give you those, you never mean to ask for singles, so even if you ask for just "staples", I'm sure you'll get a stick of them.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/2558/user1306322
score: 5
sents: text: I have always said "a row of staples" for the actual staples stuck together that you put into a stapler.
text: In the US, Swingline is the most known brand of stapler and here is the usage for row of staples
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/33113/Lambie
score: 5
sents: text: They're staples Just wanted to point out that one of the world's largest office supplies companies based its name on these little things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Inc .
text: From a marketing perspective, it has a dual meaning - a "staple" is typically a basic ingredient or material so widely used or consumed that it's considered essential to an everyday process.
text: For example, rice and potatoes are staple foods in many parts of the world, cotton is a staple element of clothing.
text: By labelling themselves Staples, the office supplies company acquires the linguistic side effect of describing themselves as essential/being sellers of essential things
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/56750/Caius Jard
score: 5
sents: text: In India, I have heard them called "stapler pins" most often.
text: See, for example, listings on various shopping sites: eBay India Stationery Hut (seems to be an Indian site) Flipkart (Indian site) Or various news articles: FSSAI bans stapler pins in tea bags from January 2018 - The Hindu Business Line , July 24 2017.
text: ‘Indecent obsessions’: A peek into life as a kleptomaniac, compulsive liar - The Hindustan Times , August 20, 2017 (emphasis mine): Pencils, erasers, sharpeners, notepads, paper clips, even stapler pins – over the next nine years, Dandekar would stockpile stationery he never really wanted, and certainly did not need. 29 stapler pins removed from 10-month-old baby's oral cavity - Daily News & Analysis , May 6, 2015.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/11934/muru
score: 5
sents: text: a "bolt" of staples is what you call the attached line of staples.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/66782/O'NEILL JOSEPH
score: 1
sents: text: As already answered, most people would just say they were "staples":
text: I need to put some more staples in my stapler.
text: It may also be called " a block of staples " as they are stuck together.
text: Another alternative is that they may be referred to as a cartridge .
text: Usually, a "cartridge" is a container with something inside, but the fact that the staples are sort of stuck together with a very fine adhesive makes them more than just "some staples".
text: It is a single, collective object designed to be put into a stapler, and for that reason, I think "cartridge" is acceptible.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/66325/Astralbee
score: 1
sents: text: They are called: Stapler Needles or Staple strips .
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/47040/Eran
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
They are called staples or staple strips.
They are called staples.