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Synonyms for starch

Grammar : Noun
Spell : stahrch
Phonetic Transcription : stɑrtʃ

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Définition of starch

Origin :
  • c.1400, from Old English *stercan (Mercian), *stiercan (West Saxon) "make rigid," found in stercedferhð "fixed, hard, resolute" (related to stearc "stiff"), from Proto-Germanic *starkijanan (cf. German Stärke "strength, starch"), from PIE root *ster- "strong, firm, stiff, rigid" (see stark). Related: Starched; starching.
  • noun laundering agent
  • noun complex carbohydrate
  • noun stiff bearing
  • noun vigor
  • noun strengthener
Example sentences :
  • I honor the girl's spirit for not disguising it with starch and pomatum.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 » by Various
  • Starch is made from it both for the laundry and for the manufacture of farina, dextrin, etc.
  • Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
  • The dried pulp from which the starch has been extracted is used for making boxes.
  • Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
  • That dust, on being transferred to the stage of a microscope, was found to contain an enormous number of starch grains.
  • Extract from : « The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • It is these starch grains which form many of those bright specks that we see dancing in a ray of light sometimes.
  • Extract from : « The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • I said: 'No, you furnish the soap and starch and what you pay is enough.
  • Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
  • The maid who answered the bell wore a white apron which crackled with starch.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • But only think of him who converts your cutlet into charcoal, and your steak into starch!
  • Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
  • You can tell what foods have starch in them by testing them with iodine.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • To be absorbed and assimilated this starch must first be transformed into sugar.
  • Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay

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