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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /stɑrtʃ/
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Etymology

{{term|stearc||stark, strong, rough|lang=ang}}. See also . Compare German .

Noun

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.
carbohydrate|Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

Translations

Chinese: {{t-|cmn|淀粉|tr=diànfěn|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}}
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|amidon|m}}
German: {{t+|de|Stärke|f}}
Greek: {{t+|el|άμυλο|n|tr=ámilo|sc=Grek}}
Hebrew: {{t+|he|עמילן|m|tr=amilan|sc=Hebr}}

Italian: {{t+|it|amido|m}}
Malay: {{t+|ms|kanji|n|xs=Malay}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|крахмал|m|tr=kraxmál|sc=Cyrl}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|almidón|m}}
Turkish:

Czech: {{t-|cs|škrob|m}}
Dutch: {{t+|nl|zetmeel|n}}
Finnish:

Hebrew: {{t+|he|עמילן|m|tr=`amilan|sc=Hebr}}
Italian: {{t+|it|amido|m}}

Finnish:

German: {{t|de|Steifheit|f}}

Dutch: {{t|nl|stijfsel|n}}

Italian: {{t-|it|appretto|m}}

Verb

To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
: She starched her blouses.

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German:

Adjective

stiff|Stiff; precise; rigid.

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References

Category:Carbohydrates

et:starch fa:starch fr:starch io:starch hu:starch pt:starch fi:starch ta:starch te:starch vi:starch zh:starch

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Starch \Starch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Starched (st[aum]rcht);
p. pr. & vb. n. Starching.]
To stiffen with starch.
[1913 Webster] Star chamber

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Starch \Starch\ (st[aum]rch), a. [AS. stearc stark, strong,
rough. See Stark.]
Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] --Killingbeck.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Starch \Starch\, n. [From starch stiff, cf. G. st[aum]rke, fr.
stark strong.]
1. (Chem.) 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.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Starch is a carbohydrate, being the typical amylose,
C6H10O5, and is detected by the fine blue color given
to it by free iodine. It is not fermentable as such,
but is changed by diastase into dextrin and maltose,
and by heating with dilute acids into dextrose. Cf.
Sugar, Inulin, and Lichenin.
[1913 Webster]

2. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

Starch hyacinth (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; -- so called
because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See
under Grape.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet starch
n : 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 textiles [syn: amylum]
v : stiffen with starch; "starch clothes"

Moby Dictionary
aggressiveness , albumen , bang , batter , bonnyclabber , butter ,
carbohydrate , clabber , cornstarch , cream , curd , dash , dough , drive ,
egg white , enterprise , fire , gaum , gel , gelatin , get-up-and-go ,
getup , ginger , glair , glop , glue , gluten , go , goo , gook , goop ,
gruel , gumbo , gunk , hydroxy aldehyde , hydroxy ketone , initiative ,
jam , jell , jelly , kick , loblolly , molasses , monosaccharide ,
mucilage , mucus , pap , paste , pep , pepper , piss and vinegar ,
pizzazz , polysaccharide , polysaccharose , poop , porridge , pudding ,
pulp , punch , puree , push , putty , rob , saccharide , semifluid ,
semiliquid , size , snap , soup , spunk , sticky mess , sugar , syrup ,
thrust , treacle , trisaccharide , verve , vim , vitality , zing , zip