starch
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
starch
- (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) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
- French: amidon
- German: Stärke
- Italian: amido
- Portuguese: amido, fécula
- Russian: крахма́л
- Spanish: almidón
- French: rigidité
- German: Steifheit
- French: apprêt, empois, cati
- German: Wäschestärke, Wäschesteife
- Italian: appretto, amido
- Portuguese: goma
- Russian: крахма́л
- Spanish: almidón
starch (starches, present participle starching; past starched, past participle starched)
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
- She starched her blouses.
- French: amidonner
- German: stärken
- Italian: inamidare, apprettare
- Portuguese: engomar
- Russian: накрахма́ливать
- Spanish: almidonar
starch (not comparable)
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