starch

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/|[ˈstɑːt͡ʃ]    美 /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ/|[ˈstɑɹt͡ʃ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — Meronym: saccharide
  2. Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. countable
  3. A stiff, formal manner; formality. uncountable
    — 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
  4. Fortitude. uncountable
    — 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.
  5. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener. countable
    — 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
动词 v.
  1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface. transitive
    — She starched her blouses.
形容词 adj.
  1. Stiff; precise; rigid. not-comparable
    — misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

词形变化

starches plural starches present,singular,third-person starching participle,present starched participle,past starched past

词汇关系

衍生词
animal starch clearstarch cornstarch destarch distarch hydroxypropyl starch hydroxypropyl starch glycerine hydroxypropyl starch phosphate maizestarch modified starch nitrostarch nonstarch pentastarch potato starch starch generator starch hyacinth starchless starchlike starchly starchman starch-root starchworks starchwort starchy tapioca starch tetrastarch tous-les-mois starch unstarch wheat starch

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
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”).
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