starch
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English stearc (“stark, strong, rough”). See also stark. Compare German Stärke.
Noun[edit]
starch (countable and uncountable, plural starches)
- (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
substance
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carbohydrates
stiff manner
laundry stiffener
Verb[edit]
starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
- She starched her blouses.
Translations[edit]
apply laundry starch
Adjective[edit]
starch (not comparable)
- Stiff; precise; rigid.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Killingbeck to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
stiff
References[edit]
- starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams[edit]
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