English-Russian translations for 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

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