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starch English

Meaning starch meaning

What does starch mean?
Definitions in simple English

starch Noun

— Starch is a carbohydrate found in seeds, fruits, roots, and tubers. Potatoes and rice are a good source of starch. — Starch is a white powder made from carbohydrates and added to clothes during washing to make them stiff. She added starch to the washing to stiffen the shirt collars.

starch Verb

— To starch is to add a powder to washing to make the material stiff. His freshly washed clothes had been starched and were so hard that it was difficult to put them on.

starch

— noun 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 — noun a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering — verb stiffen with starch starch clothes

Synonyms starch synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as starch?

starch English » English

amylum paste glue stiffness stiffen size flour farina carbohydrate amyl thick fluid starchy starched starch powder starch grain sizing rice-water primness mucilage meal grass grainy goo fruits cream cooked rice clear-starch cereal broth amyloid

Conjugation starch conjugation

How do you conjugate starch?

starch · verb

Examples starch examples

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Simple sentences

Corn starch is good for thickening soup.
Please tell me how to use laundry starch to starch things.

Movie subtitles

He wants to know if you want starch in your shirts.
Yes, indeed, with a lovely horse and trap, and a good black suit and a shirt with starch.
That ought to take some starch out of Stryker.
Might wash some of the starch out of you, or rust.
Nope. Too much starch.
Just the way you like them, no starch.
Three months I ain't smelled nothin' but the starch of nurses' uniforms.
I would hear the starch in my petticoat begin to rustle. and I'd know I was out of character.
I'll have to cut out fat, sugar, starch. everything!
Between 2:00 and 4:00, Miss Starch, piano.
Miss Starch!
Yeah? Just ask Miss Starch.
I asked Miss Starch.
Not starch.
No starch. it's gluten.
Sir? I don't like starch in my pajamas.
Doug, I'm gonna get some starch.
Miss Starch! Good evening!
I asked Miss Starch. How do you think I know?
Keep talking, i'll find you. Say, etherson, i've been meaning to tell you you put too much starch in my collar.
Too much starch?
Just see that the laundry doesn't starch my collars, boil my eggs four minutes, toast dry, coffee black and don't knock on the bathroom door.
Just ask Miss Starch.
Maybe prison took some of the starch out of you.
They're using too much starch.
I'm not sure eating starch is a good idea for my aerophagy.
Goodbye, starch!
We have meta-starch available.
Say, Omri, d'you iron your shirts with starch?
Mixtures of starch, honey, of.

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Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).

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