English-Dutch translations for starch

• zetmeel
  Wij denken dat zetmeel uit aardappelen en zetmeel uit granen in principe altijd op gelijke wijze betaald moeten worden. We think that potato starch and cereal starch should in principle always receive the same payments.
  Eerst betalen wij voor de productie van zetmeel en daarna betalen wij voor de export van zetmeel, omdat niemand het zetmeel hier wil. We pay the producers to make the starch and then we pay them to export it because nobody wants it.
  Wij vinden het nodig dat zetmeel van wat voor bron ook op gelijke wijze wordt betaald en vooral ook zetmeel uit aardappelen. We think that payments for starch from whatever source, including potato starch, should be made on equal terms.
• precies
• rigide
• stijf
• stijfsel

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.

Related words

• cornstarch
• starched
• starchy
• Aristarchus
• starchitect
• Aristarch
• Aristarchian
• agonistarch
• starch sugar