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Definition of starch
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of starch is as below...
Starch
(n.) 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..
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Amylolytic
::
Amylolytic
(a.)
Effecting
the
conversion
of
starch
into
soluble
dextrin
and
sugar;
as, an
amylolytic
ferment..
Glucose
::
Glucose
(n.) A
variety
of sugar
occurring
in
nature
very
abundantly,
as in ripe
grapes,
and in
honey,
and
produced
in great
quantities
from
starch,
etc., by the
action
of heat and
acids.
It is only about half as sweet as cane
sugar.
Called
also
dextrose,
grape
sugar,
diabetic
sugar,
and
starch
sugar.
See
Dextrose..
Xystarch
::
Xystarch
(n.) An
office/
having
the
superintendence
of the xyst.
Dextrin
::
Dextrin
(n.) A
translucent,
gummy,
amorphous
substance,
nearly
tasteless
and
odorless,
used as a
substitute
for gum, for
sizing,
etc., and
obtained
from
starch
by the
action
of heat,
acids,
or
diastase.
It is of
somewhat
variable
composition,
containing
several
carbohydrates
which
change
easily
to their
respective
varieties
of
sugar.
It is so named from its
rotating
the plane of
polarization
to the
right;
--
called
also
British
gum,
Alsace
gum,
gommelin,
leiocome,
etc. See
Achroodextrin,
and Ery
Starchly
::
Starcher
(n.) One who
starches.
Hordein
::
Hordein
(n.) A
peculiar
starchy
matter
contained
in
barley.
It is
complex
mixture.
Clearstarched
::
Clearstarched
(imp. & p. p.) of
Clearstarc.
Acetone
::
Acetone
(n.) A
volatile
liquid
consisting
of three parts of
carbon,
six of
hydrogen,
and one of
oxygen;
pyroacetic
spirit,
--
obtained
by the
distillation
of
certain
acetates,
or by the
destructive
distillation
of
citric
acid,
starch,
sugar,
or gum, with
quicklime..
Star-chamber
::
Starch
(v. t.) To
stiffen
with
starch.
Inversion
::
Inversion
(n.) The act or
process
by which cane sugar
(sucrose),
under the
action
of heat and acids or
ferments
(as
diastase),
is
broken
or split up into grape sugar
(dextrose),
and fruit sugar
(levulose);
also, less
properly,
the
process
by which
starch
is
converted
into grape sugar
(dextrose)..
Cassava
::
Cassava
(n.) A
nutritious
starch
obtained
from the
rootstocks
of the
cassava
plant,
used as food and in
making
tapioca..
Stiff
::
Stiff
(superl.)
Not
natural
and easy;
formal;
constrained;
affected;
starched;
as, stiff
behavior;
a stiff
style..
Paramylum
::
Paramylum
(n.) A
substance
resembling
starch,
found in the green
frothy
scum
formed
on the
surface
of
stagnant
water..
Clearstarcher
::
Clearstarcher
(n.) One who
clearstarches.
Grain
::
Grain (n.) Any
small,
hard
particle,
as of sand,
sugar,
salt, etc.;
hence,
any
minute
portion
or
particle;
as, a grain of
gunpowder,
of
pollen,
of
starch,
of
sense,
of wit, etc..
Cuff
::
Cuff (n.) Any
ornamental
appendage
at the
wrist,
whether
attached
to the
sleeve
of the
garment
or
separate;
especially,
in
modern
times,
such an
appendage
of
starched
linen,
or a
substitute
for it of
paper,
or the
like..
Paste
::
Paste (n.) A kind of
cement
made of flour and
water,
starch
and
water,
or the like, -- used for
uniting
paper or other
substances,
as in
bookbinding,
etc., -- also used in
calico
printing
as a
vehicle
for
mordant
or
color..
Aristarch
::
Aristarch
(n.) A
severe
critic.
Starchwort
::
Starchness
(n.) Of or
pertaining
to
starched
or
starch;
stiffness
of
manner;
preciseness.
Starch
::
Starch
(a.)
Stiff;
precise;
rigid.
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