ALL meanings of starch
starch
S s - noun starch in food 1
- noun starch for ironing 1
- transitive verb starch clothes, ironing 1
- noun starch formality 1
- noun starch energy 1
- noun starch a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) 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. 1
- noun starch a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering. 1
- noun starch starches, foods rich in natural starch. 1
- noun starch stiffness or formality, as of manner: He is so full of starch he can't relax. 1
- noun starch Informal. vigor; energy; stamina; boldness. 1
- verb with object starch to stiffen or treat with starch. 1
- verb with object starch to make stiff or rigidly formal (sometimes followed by up). 1
- variable noun starch Starch is a substance that is found in foods such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice and gives you energy. 0
- uncountable noun starch Starch is a substance that is used for making cloth stiffer, especially cotton and linen. 0
- verb starch If you starch cloth, you make it stiffer using starch. 0
- noun starch a polysaccharide composed of glucose units that occurs widely in plant tissues in the form of storage granules, consisting of amylose and amylopectin 0
- noun starch 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 0
- noun starch any food containing a large amount of starch, such as rice and potatoes 0
- noun starch stiff or pompous formality of manner or conduct 0
- verb starch to stiffen with or soak in starch 0
- adjective starch (of a person) formal; stiff 0
- noun starch a white, tasteless, odorless food substance found in potatoes, rice, corn, wheat, cassava, and many other vegetable foods: it is a granular solid, chemically a complex carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, and is used in adhesives, sizes, foods, cosmetics, medicine, etc. 0
- noun starch a powdered form of this, used in laundering for stiffening cloth, fabrics, etc. 0
- noun starch starchy foods 0
- noun starch formal, unbending manner or behavior; stiffness 0
- noun starch energy; vigor 0
- verb transitive starch to stiffen with or as if with starch 0
- noun starch Starch is a polysaccharide used as a dusting powder, and as a disintegrant, filler, and binder in pharmaceutical preparations. 0