starch

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Adjective 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 References 1.7 Anagrams

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /stɑrtʃ/

  Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tʃ

[edit] Etymology

Old English stearc (“‘stark, strong, rough’”). See also stark. Compare German stärke.

[edit] Noun

starch (countable and uncountable; plural starches)

1. (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.
2. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

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• starchy
• cornstarch

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[edit] Verb

to starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

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[edit] Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.

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[edit] References

• starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: achrst
• charts
• trachs