Meaning of Starch | Babel Free
stɑɹt͡ʃDefinitions
- 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.
- Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- Fortitude.
- Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
Equivalents
Examples
“Meronym: saccharide”
“The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.”
“this Professor is to give⟳ the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify⟳ them for Levées, Conferences, Visits”
“The thought of the gun in his back put⟳ some starch in him. He needed the handrail, and he limped step by step, but he ascended at his full height.”
“You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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