Starch

[stɑːtʃ] or [stɑrtʃ]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

錄入:卡利--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

鲍里斯校對

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Stiff, STARCHED.

校對:露辛达

解釋/意思:

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.

校對:内奥米