starch in Polish

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Verb

  • Infinitive: (to) starch
  • Present: starch / starches
  • Preteritum: starched
  • Perfektum: (have) starched

Noun

  • Singular: starch
  • Plural: starches

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Definitions of starch

Noun

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

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

Adjektive

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.

Other

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.

Examples of usage

  • She starched her blouses.
  • Please tell me how to use laundry starch to starch things.
  • How does one cook rice without starch?
  • How do you cook rice without starch?
  • Come to that the uniform had a bit more starch than that I usually wear, it's a bit uncomfortable.
  • Starch degradation is linked to a Circadian clock.
  • Corn starch is good for thickening soup.

Wikipedia says

  • Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as an energy store. It is the most important carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in such staple foods as potatoes, wheat, maize (corn), rice, and cassava.

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