starch /ˈstɑrʧ/
 澱粉,漿糊,刻板(vt.)漿硬,使拘泥
 starch /ˈstɑrʧ/ 名詞
 澱粉,漿糊,上漿,摻假的藥品
 Starch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Starched p. pr. & vb. n. Starching.] To stiffen with starch.
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 Starch a.  Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.]
 Starch, n.
 1. Chem. 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.
 Note: ☞ Starch is a carbohydrate, being the typical amylose, C6H10O5, and is detected by the fine blue color given to it by free iodine. It is not fermentable as such, but is changed by diastase into dextrin and maltose, and by heating with dilute acids into dextrose.  Cf. Sugar, Inulin, and Lichenin.
 2. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
 Starch hyacinth Bot., the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.
 starch
      n : 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: amylum]
      v : stiffen with starch; "starch clothes"