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List of office items

Things you might find in an office, from paper clips to file cabinets.

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Photo of some staples

S is for Staple

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A staple is a small piece of wire that is put in place by using a stapler. Staples are used to hold things together, usually pieces of paper.
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Daniel R. Blume / CC BY-SA
Photo of a stapler

S is for Stapler

List of office items, Tools
A stapler is a device that punches a small piece of wire called a staple through several sheets of paper to hold them together.
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Till Westermayer / CC BY-SA
Generated image of a stickytape dispenser

S is for Stickytape

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Sticky tape or adhesive tape comes on a roll in many different widths and colours. It is very sticky on one side and not sticky at all on the other side. You can use it to stick things to walls, or stick pictures into a scrapbook.
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Photographic Dictionary / Generated Illustration
Photo of thumbtacks

T is for Thumbtack

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A thumbtack, or push pin is a kind of pin that is used to hold pieces of paper to a wall. Thumbtacks used to be flat and silver, but more modern thumbtacks look like the ones in the picture.
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Zoha Nve / CC BY-SA
Photo of hands on a keyboard typing.

T is for Type

List of office items, Verbs
You type when you use your fingers to press letters on a keyboard. The letters you type then appear either on the paper in the typewriter or on the screen of the computer that you are using.
Typing is an alternative to writing.
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Steven Lilley / CC BY-SA
Photo of an old typewriter

T is for Typewriter

List of office items, List of devices
Before computers, if someone wanted to write a letter that wasn't handwritten they used a typewriter.
Typewriters work by hitting a ribbon full of ink with a small piece of metal with a letter shape on it when you press the keys on the typewriter keyboard. This leaves the mark of a letter in ink on your piece of paper.
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Seth Morabito / CC BY-SA
Photo of a whiteboard

W is for Whiteboard

List of office items, Education, Types of communication
A whiteboard is a smooth, white surface you can write on. Teachers use them to help explain things to their students, and people also use them to brainstorm ideas on.
You write on a whiteboard with a special kind of marker.
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Photo of a photocopier

X is for Xerox

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Xerox is a company who make photocopiers and printers, among other things. Their photocopiers were so widespread at one stage that the word Xerox was used to mean any photocopier, or any photocopied piece of paper.
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