| 单词 | starch |
| 释义 | starch (once / 1178 pages) nv Starch is the stuff that makes your shirt collar look crisp and fresh. It's also the complex carbohydrate that potatoes and rice — foods that are called starches — have lots of. Starch can also be a verb. You can starch your shirt by adding starch, which is a white powder, to the rinse water. You can also get the kind of starch that comes as a spray, which you squirt on your shirt while you're ironing it. Cornstarch, which is also a white powder, is used to thicken sauces or make egg whites stand in stiff peaks when you beat them. WORD FAMILYstarch: starched, starching, starchless, starchlike, starchy+/starchy: starchier, starchiest, starchily USAGE EXAMPLESA vegetable and a starch accompany all main dishes, an endearing vestige of old-school style. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) “I would like to see recommendations to limit both sugar and starch. But that’s half the calories in the food supply.” New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Part of the problem is our faith in the food trinity of meat, starch and vegetables. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper amylum arum starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root cassava, cassava starch, manioc, maniocaa starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics arrowroota nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant cornflour, cornstarchstarch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener sagopowdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener amyloida non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch Otaheite arrowroot, Otaheite arrowroot starcha starch obtained from the root of the pia pearl sagosago ground into small round grains polyose, polysaccharide any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules 2n a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering Hyper formulation, preparation a substance prepared according to a formula 3v stiffen with starch starch clothes Hyper stiffen make stiff or stiffer |
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