English-German translations for starch

• Stärke die
  Stärke aus Kartoffeln und Stärke aus Getreide müssen unseres Erachtens grundsätzlich stets gleichbehandelt werden. We think that potato starch and cereal starch should in principle always receive the same payments.
  Nicht, weil es unfähig ist, Stärke herzustellen, oder diese Stärke zu teuer oder von schlechter Qualität ist. This is not because it is unable to manufacture starch, or that its starch is too expensive or of poor quality.
  Wenn wir von Stärke sprechen, dann muß der Preis der Stärke identisch sein, unabhängig davon, ob sie nun aus Kartoffeln oder aus Getreide gewonnen wird. If we are talking about starch, the price of starch should be the same whether it comes from potatoes or from cereals.
• stärken
• Speisestärke die
• steifen
• Steifheit die
• Wäschestärke die
• Wäschesteife die

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