Starch

Quick meaning: Starch is a noun meaning (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

Meaning

(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
2. (uncountable) Fortitude.
3. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
4. (transitive) To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface.
5. Stiff; precise; rigid.
6. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found 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.

Example Sentences

Meronym: saccharide

She starched her blouses.

misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you

Word Forms

• starches
• starching
• starched

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potato, arrowroot, amylose, strength, stamina, redundancy.

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