Definizione monolingua

starch

starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

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

   She starched her blouses.

starch (countable and uncountable; plural starches)

1. (uncountable) 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. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.

Definizione dizionario starch

	amido
	carbohydrate
	laundry stiffener
	substance
	A polysaccharide which is a combination of many monosaccharide molecules, made during photosynthesis and stored as starch grains in many plants.

	apprettare
	apply laundry starch

	appretto
	laundry stiffener

	inamidare
	apply laundry starch

fecola

Altri significati:

stiff manner

Stiff; precise; rigid.

stiff

(uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

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

(uncountable) 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.

(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener