starch
IPA: stˈɑrtʃ
noun
- (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- (uncountable) Fortitude.
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
verb
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
adjective
- Stiff; precise; rigid.
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Examples of "starch" in Sentences
- He knows the chemical equatioin for starch.
- The predominant form of this carbohydrate is starch.
- Kalo was the staple starch crop of the Hawaiian diet.
- Salivary amylase begins the digestion of starch to glucose.
- Also disclosed are the hydrolyzates of the starch polyethers.
- What does the photo of the corn starch on the speaker demonstrate
- Grains supply food energy in the form of starch and carbohydrates.
- With less soft starch than dent corn, it is too hard to bear concavities.
- Starch and cellulose are polymers derived from the dehydration of glucose.
- It is called mandioca in Paraguay, the root crop was the main starch of the diet.
- Arrowroot, or arrowroot starch, is a powdery product made from the arrowroot plant, a starchy tropical root.
- You can also get them with potatoes, but I tend to not add those since starch within starch is just a bit much.
- The degree to which our starch is awash is exhibited in the behaviour of so many of our captives, but especially in these two.
- The word starch dates from the 15th century, and comes from a German root that means “to stiffen, to make rigid,” which is also what starch does to convert bread dough into bread.
- The other was 'a certain kind of liquid matter, which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dye their ruffs well; and this starch they make of divers colours and hues -- white, red, blue, purple, and the like, which, being dry, will then stand stiff and inflexible about their necks. '
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