starch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++starch1 /stɑːtʃ $ stɑːrtʃ/ noun 1 [countable, uncountable]DFN a substance which provides your body with energy and is found in foods such as grain, rice, and potatoes, or a food that contains this substance 淀粉；含淀粉的食物 SYN carbohydrate He eats a lot of starch. 他吃大量含淀粉的食物。 Avoid fatty foods and starches. 避免食用高脂的和含淀粉的食物。2. [uncountable]DFC a substance that is mixed with water and is used to make cloth stiff 〔用于浆布料的〕浆粉
Examples from the Corpus
starch• Starches such as potatoes are a necessary part of most good diets.• Baked stuffed potatoes are an indulgent starch.• They are preferable to many sauces traditionally thickened with roux or other starches.• At this stage the fruit is hard and one quarter starch.• Easy-cook rice is par-boiled to remove the surface starch that causes the problems when cooking other long grain rices.• What I wan na do is load this kid up with all the starch he can take.• The starch in her collar had gone limp with the soaking.starch2 verb [transitive] DCDHCto make cloth stiff, using starch 给…上浆 a starched tablecloth 浆过的桌布n Grammar Starch is usually passive.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
starch• His shirt was so white that it must have been starched.• It advertised a character of fastidious and correct nature, some one whose collars would be uncomfortably starched.• These shirts need to be starched and ironed.• An older woman whose hair and dress were folded and starched leading a younger woman flushed with inexpert embarrassment.Origin starch2 (1400-1500) Probably from an unrecorded Old English stercan “to make stiff”starch1 nounstarch2 verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChinese
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starch
starch1 /stɑːtʃ $ stɑːrtʃ/ 
noun
1. [uncountable and countable] a substance which provides your body with energy and is found in foods such as grain, rice, and potatoes, or a food that contains this substance
SYN carbohydrate:
He eats a lot of starch.
Avoid fatty foods and starches.
2. [uncountable] a substance that is mixed with water and is used to make cloth stiff
starch2 verb [transitive usually passive]
a starched tablecloth
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noun1. [uncountable and countable] a substance which provides your body with energy and is found in foods such as grain, rice, and potatoes, or a food that contains this substance
SYN carbohydrate:
2. [uncountable] a substance that is mixed with water and is used to make cloth stiff
| II |
verb [transitive usually passive] Date: 1400-1500
Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English stercan __to make stiff__
to make cloth stiff, using starch:Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English stercan __to make stiff__