English-Czech translations for starch
- škrobZa prvé, pane Barroso, dosud jsem nedostala odpověď na otázku o potřebě těchto geneticky modifikovaných brambor, které mají produkovat jen průmyslový škrob. Firstly, Mr Barroso, I have still not received an answer to the question about the need for these genetically-modified potatoes, which are simply intended to provide industrial starch.
Definition of starch
- A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted 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
- A stiff, formal manner; formality
- Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface
- Stiff; precise; rigid
Examples
- She starched her blouses.
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