Starch
[stɑːtʃ] or [stɑrtʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
(noun.) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles.
(verb.) stiffen with starch; 'starch clothes'.
录入:卡利--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
鲍里斯校对
同义词及近义词:
a. Stiff, STARCHED.
校对:露辛达
解释:
n. the pure fecula or white farinaceous matter of vegetables yielding a translucent jelly used for stiffening clothes in the laundry: stiffness formality.—adj. stiff rigid formal.—adj. Starched stiffened with starch: formal.—adv. Starch′edly.—ns. Starch′edness; Starch′er; Starch′-hy′acinth a plant allied to the hyacinth so called from the smell of the flower.—adv. Starch′ily in a starch or stiff manner: formally.—ns. Starch′iness the state or quality of being starchy: stiffness of manner: formality; Starch′-su′gar glucose.—adj. Starch′y consisting of or like starch: stiff: precise.
校对:内奥米
例句:
- Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Take one table-spoonful of starch, dissolve it in cold water, and when the boiled starch gets lukewarm pour it over it, stir well, and strain. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Be careful that the starch is rubbed in until the right side is wet all over. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Broadly speaking, plants furnish the carbohydrates, that is, starch and sugar; animals furnish the fats and proteids. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The quantity of the starch or dextrine or gelatine may be changed according as the tissues are to be more or less stiff. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- I felt bad but did not fret I bear my troubles well but I do wish Hannah would put more starch in my aprons and have buckwheats every day. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The cloth is dipped into a body of starch, or the same is applied by hand, and then the superfluous starch squeezed out as the clothes are passed through the rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Only you can't do much in a starched shirt. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She listened, watching, hoping no one would hear the starched linen crackle. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I must differ in opinion with you, Lord Hertford, said he, in his starched pragmatical manner. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- While the maid was busy crimping or starching, I took an Italian iron from the fire, and applied the light scarlet glowing tip to my arm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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