starch
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starch
(stärch)n.
1. A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.
2. Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.
3. starches Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.
4.
a. Stiff behavior: "Dobbs, the butler ... isn't as stiff as he used to be; Ann, my brother's new wife, has loosened up his starch a bit" (Jennifer St. Giles).
b. Vigor; mettle: "Business travel can take the starch out of the most self-assured corporate titan" (Lisa Faye Kaplan).
tr.v. starched, starch·ing, starch·es
To stiffen with starch.
[Middle English starche, substance used to stiffen cloth (sense uncertain), from sterchen, to stiffen, from Old English *stercan; see ster- in Indo-European roots.]
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starch
(stɑːtʃ)n
1. (Biochemistry) a polysaccharide composed of glucose units that occurs widely in plant tissues in the form of storage granules, consisting of amylose and amylopectin.
2. (Biochemistry) Also called: amylum a starch obtained from potatoes and some grain: it is fine white powder that forms a translucent viscous solution on boiling with water and is used to stiffen fabric and in many industrial processes
3. (Cookery) any food containing a large amount of starch, such as rice and potatoes
4. stiff or pompous formality of manner or conduct
vb
(Clothing & Fashion) (tr) to stiffen with or soak in starch
adj
(of a person) formal; stiff
[Old English stercan (unattested except by the past participle sterced) to stiffen; related to Old Saxon sterkian, Old High German sterken to strengthen, Dutch sterken; see stark]
ˈstarcher n
ˈstarchˌlike adj
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starch
(stɑrtʃ)n.
1. a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
2. a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
3. starches, foods rich in natural starch.
4. stiffness or formality, as of manner.
5. vigor; energy; stamina; boldness.
v.t. 6. to stiffen or treat with starch.
7. to make stiff or rigidly formal (sometimes fol. by up).
[1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English sterchen orig., to stiffen, Old English stercean to strengthen, derivative of stearc stark; (n.) late Middle English starch(e), sterche, derivative of the v.]
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starch
(stärch)1. A carbohydrate that is the chief form of stored energy in plants, especially wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes. Starch is a kind of polysaccharide and forms a white, tasteless powder when purified. It is an important source of nutrition and is also used to make adhesives, paper, and textiles.
2. Any of various substances, including natural starch, used to stiffen fabrics.
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starch
Past participle: starched
Gerund: starching
| Imperative |
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starch
Carbohydrate from cereals and potatoes.
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| Noun | 1. |  starch - a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textilesarum - starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca - a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics polyose, polysaccharide - any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules arrowroot - a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant cornflour, cornstarch - starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener sago - powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener amyloid - a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch Otaheite arrowroot, Otaheite arrowroot starch - a starch obtained from the root of the pia |
| 2. | starch - a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering formulation, preparation - a substance prepared according to a formula; "the physician prescribed a commercial preparation of the medicine" | |
| Verb | 1. | starch - stiffen with starch; "starch clothes" stiffen - make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" |
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starch
nounRelated words
adjective amylaceous
adjective amylaceous
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starch
nounA quality of active mental and physical forcefulness:
Informal: snap.
Idiom: vim and vigor.
To make stiff or stiffer:
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Translations
نَشاءنَشاء الثِّيابيُنَشّي الثِّيابنشاء
škrobškrobit
stivelsestive
tärkkelystärkkijäykkäjäykkyystärkätä
škrob
keményítőkikeményít
mjölvi, sterkjastífastífelsi
澱粉
전분
krakmolaskrakmolingumaskrakmolytaskrakmolytiturintis krakmolo
cietecietinātstērķelestērķelēt
skrobiasztywnośćkrochmalkrochmalić
škrobškrobiť
škrob
stärkelse
แป้ง
tinh bột
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starch
(staːtʃ) noun1. a white food substance found especially in flour, potatoes etc. Bread contains starch.
2. a powder prepared from this, used for stiffening clothes.
verb to stiffen (clothes) with starch.
ˈstarchy adjective like or containing starch. cake, biscuits and other starchy foods.
ˈstarchiness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
starch
→ نَشاء škrob stivelse Stärke άμυλο almidón tärkkelys amidon škrob amido 澱粉 전분 zetmeel stivelse skrobia amido крахмал stärkelse แป้ง nişasta tinh bột 淀粉Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
starch
n. almidón, fécula, elemento principal de los carbohidratos;
v. almidonar.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
starch
n almidón mEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.