English Dictionary

starch

IPA（発音記号）

/stɑɹt͡ʃ/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially 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.

日本語の意味

でんぷん：種子、球根、塊茎などに含まれる、無味無臭の白く輝く粉末状の物質。食品、糊、リネンの硬化などに用いられる。

She added a spoonful of starch to the sauce to thicken it.

彼女はソースにとろみをつけるために、大さじ1杯のでんぷんを加えた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially 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.

意味（2）

(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

意味（3）

(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

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

意味（4）

(uncountable) Fortitude.

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.

意味（5）

(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

starches （ plural ）