adj
Meaning 1
Stiff; precise; rigid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
starch
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈstɑːt͡ʃ]
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General-American: /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/
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General-American: [ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ]
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
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CMU ARPABET: S T AA1 R CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Meronym: saccharide
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: polysaccharide, carbohydrate
noun
Meaning 3
Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: nutrition
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Fortitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- She starched her blouses.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: formulation, preparation
noun
Meaning 9
a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amylum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: polysaccharide, polyose
Narrower terms: arum, cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca, arrowroot, cornstarch, cornflour, sago, amyloid, Otaheite arrowroot, Otaheite arrowroot starch
verb
Meaning 10
stiffen with starch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- starch clothes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stiffen
History
Etymology
From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”).
Across languages
Translations
194 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: stijf — stiff
- Dutch: precies — stiff
- Dutch: rigide — stiff
- Estonian: jäik — stiff
- Estonian: kalk — stiff
- Estonian: paindumatu — stiff
- Estonian: puine — stiff
- Estonian: kange — stiff
- Estonian: kramplik — stiff
- Estonian: täpne — stiff
- Estonian: sitke — stiff
- Estonian: nõudlik — stiff
- Finnish: jäykkä — stiff
- Portuguese: duro — stiff
- Portuguese: preciso — stiff
- Portuguese: rígido — stiff
- Serbo-Croatian: uštogljeno — stiff
- Albanian: koll — substance
- Arabic: نَشَاء (našāʔ) — substance
- Armenian: օսլա (ōsla) — substance
- Assamese: মাৰ (mar) — substance
- Belarusian: крухма́л (kruxmál) — substance
- Bulgarian: скорбяла (skorbjala) — substance
- Catalan: midó — substance
- Cebuano: tayubong — substance
- Chamicuro: almelone — substance
- Chinese Cantonese: 澱粉 /淀粉 — substance
- Hakka Chinese: 澱粉 /淀粉 (thien-fún) — substance
- Chinese: 澱粉 /淀粉 (tiān-hún) — substance
- Chinese Mandarin: 澱粉 /淀粉 (diànfěn) — substance
- Czech: škrob — substance
- Danish: stivelse — substance
- Dutch: zetmeel — substance
- Esperanto: amelo — substance
- Estonian: tärklis — substance
- Finnish: tärkkelys — substance
- French: amidon — substance
- Galician: amidón — substance
- Gallurese: madoni — substance
- Georgian: სახამებელი (saxamebeli) — substance
- German: Stärke — substance
- Greek: άμυλο (ámylo) — substance
- Ancient Greek: ἄμυλον (ámulon) — substance
- Hebrew: עֲמִילָן (amilan) — substance
- Higaonon: tayobong — substance
- Hindi: स्टार्च (sṭārc) — substance
- Hindi: कलफ़ (kalaf) — substance
- Hungarian: keményítő — substance
- Indonesian: amilum — substance
- Indonesian: pati — substance
- Ingrian: krahmala — substance
- Isoko: ozi — substance
- Italian: amido — substance
- Japanese: デンプン (denpun) — substance
- Japanese: 澱粉 (denpun) — substance
- Kalmyk: цавг (tsavg) — substance
- Khmer: បិដ្ឋជាតិ (be’dthɑ ciet) — substance
- Korean: 녹말 (nongmal) — substance
- Korean: 전분 (jeonbun) — substance
- Lao: ທາດແປ້ງ (thāt pǣng) — substance
- Latin: amylum — substance
- Latvian: ciete — substance
- Latvian: stērķele — substance
- Lithuanian: krakmolas — substance
- Macedonian: скроб (skrob) — substance
- Macedonian: ни́шесте (níšeste) — substance
- Malay: kanji — substance
- Maltese: lamtu — substance
- Māori: tāhi — substance
- Māori: māngaro — substance
- Mongolian: цардуул (carduul) — substance
- Norman: amidon — substance
- Norwegian Bokmål: stivelse — substance
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stivelse — substance
- Occitan: empés — substance
- Occitan: amidon — substance
- Ojibwe: mashkawajininjiiwaji-waabishki — substance
- Persian: نشاسته (nešâste) — substance
- Polish: skrobia — substance
- Portuguese: amido — substance
- Portuguese: fécula — substance
- Romanian: amidon — substance
- Russian: крахма́л (kraxmál) — substance
- Campidanese Sardinian: gròru — substance
- Campidanese Sardinian: madoni — substance
- Sardinian: madone — substance
- Sardinian: midone — substance
- Sassarese: madoni — substance
- Serbo-Croatian: škrob — substance
- Serbo-Croatian: шкроб — substance
- Slovak: škrob — substance
- Slovene: škrob — substance
- Spanish: almidón — substance
- Spanish: fécula — substance
- Swedish: stärkelse — substance
- Tagalog: almirol — substance
- Thai: แป้ง (bpɛ̂ɛng) — substance
- Turkish: nişasta — substance
- Ottoman Turkish: نشاسته (nişasta) — substance
- Turkmen: krahmal — substance
- Ukrainian: крохма́ль (kroxmálʹ) — substance
- Vietnamese: tinh bột — substance
- Bulgarian: нишесте (nišeste) — carbohydrates
- Chinese Mandarin: 碳水化合物 (tànshuǐhuàhéwù) — carbohydrates
- Czech: škrob — carbohydrates
- Danish: stivelse — carbohydrates
- Dutch: zetmeel — carbohydrates
- Estonian: süsivesikud — carbohydrates
- Finnish: tärkkelys — carbohydrates
- French: amidon — carbohydrates
- German: Stärke — carbohydrates
- Hebrew: עֲמִילָן (amilan) — carbohydrates
- Indonesian: pati — carbohydrates
- Italian: amido — carbohydrates
- Northern Kurdish: nîşa — carbohydrates
- Latvian: ciete — carbohydrates
- Macedonian: скроб (skrob) — carbohydrates
- Macedonian: нишесте (nišeste) — carbohydrates
- Māori: tāhi — carbohydrates
- Norwegian Bokmål: stivelse — carbohydrates
- Polish: skrobia — carbohydrates
- Portuguese: amido — carbohydrates
- Serbo-Croatian: скроб — carbohydrates
- Serbo-Croatian: шкроб — carbohydrates
- Serbo-Croatian: skrob — carbohydrates
- Serbo-Croatian: škrob — carbohydrates
- Slovak: škrob — carbohydrates
- Spanish: almidón — carbohydrates
- Spanish: fécula — carbohydrates
- Swedish: stärkelse — carbohydrates
- Tagalog: almirol — carbohydrates
- Thai: แป้ง (bpɛ̂ɛng) — carbohydrates
- Bulgarian: скованост (skovanost) — stiff manner
- Estonian: jäik — stiff manner
- Estonian: sitke — stiff manner
- Finnish: jäykkyys — stiff manner
- French: rigidité — stiff manner
- German: Steifheit — stiff manner
- Irish: ardnós — stiff manner
- Norwegian Bokmål: stivhet — stiff manner
- Polish: sztywność — stiff manner
- Serbo-Croatian: uštogljenost — stiff manner
- Bulgarian: кола (kola) — laundry stiffener
- Catalan: midó — laundry stiffener
- Dutch: stijfsel — laundry stiffener
- Estonian: tärgeldi — laundry stiffener
- Estonian: tärgeldus·vahend — laundry stiffener
- Estonian: tärgeldus·aine — laundry stiffener
- Finnish: tärkki — laundry stiffener
- French: apprêt — laundry stiffener
- French: empois — laundry stiffener
- French: cati — laundry stiffener
- Gallurese: madoni — laundry stiffener
- German: Wäschestärke — laundry stiffener
- German: Wäschesteife — laundry stiffener
- Italian: appretto — laundry stiffener
- Italian: amido — laundry stiffener
- Macedonian: штирак (štirak) — laundry stiffener
- Norwegian Bokmål: stivelse — laundry stiffener
- Polish: krochmal — laundry stiffener
- Portuguese: goma — laundry stiffener
- Russian: крахма́л (kraxmál) — laundry stiffener
- Campidanese Sardinian: gròru — laundry stiffener
- Campidanese Sardinian: madoni — laundry stiffener
- Sardinian: madone — laundry stiffener
- Sardinian: midone — laundry stiffener
- Sassarese: madoni — laundry stiffener
- Serbo-Croatian: škrobilo — laundry stiffener
- Spanish: almidón — laundry stiffener
- Spanish: fécula — laundry stiffener
- Tagalog: almirol — laundry stiffener
- Turkish: kola — laundry stiffener
- Turkish: çamaşır kolası — laundry stiffener
- Bulgarian: колосвам (kolosvam) — apply laundry starch
- Catalan: emmidonar — apply laundry starch
- Esperanto: ameli — apply laundry starch
- Esperanto: amelumi — apply laundry starch
- Estonian: tärgeldamine — apply laundry starch
- Finnish: tärkätä — apply laundry starch
- French: amidonner — apply laundry starch
- Galician: amidonar — apply laundry starch
- German: stärken — apply laundry starch
- Italian: inamidare — apply laundry starch
- Italian: apprettare — apply laundry starch
- Macedonian: штирка (štirka) — apply laundry starch
- Polish: krochmalić — apply laundry starch
- Portuguese: engomar — apply laundry starch
- Russian: накрахма́ливать (nakraxmálivatʹ) — apply laundry starch
- Serbo-Croatian: škrobiti — apply laundry starch
- Slovak: škrobiť — apply laundry starch
- Slovak: naškrobiť — apply laundry starch
- Spanish: almidonar — apply laundry starch
- Swedish: stärka — apply laundry starch
- Thai: ลงแป้ง — apply laundry starch