We got one translation of starch in English-Chinese dictionary with synonyms, definitions, examples of usage and pronunciation.
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1. | 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. | Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. | |
3. | A stiff, formal manner; formality. | |
4. | Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener. | |
Verb |
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1. | To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface. | |
Adjektive |
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1. | Stiff; precise; rigid. | |
Other |
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1. | A polysaccharide which is a combination of many monosaccharide molecules, made during photosynthesis and stored as starch grains in many plants. | |
2. | To treat with laundry starch in order to stiffen. |
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