English-Danish translations for starch

  • stivelseKartoffelstivelse tegnede sig for 48 % af den samlede eksport af stivelse i 1996-1997. Potato starch consisted of 48 % of the total starch exports in 1996-1997. Det skyldes ikke, at landet ikke kan fremstille stivelse, eller at dets stivelse er for dyr eller af ringe kvalitet. This is not because it is unable to manufacture starch, or that its starch is too expensive or of poor quality. Forbruget af stivelse er stigende i Litauen. The consumption of starch is increasing in Lithuania.

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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