How do you use the word "starch" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "starch" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "starch": Please tell me how to use laundry starch to starch things. Starch degradation is linked to a circadian clock.

Starch Meaning

/ˈstɑːt͡ʃ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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.

nounCarbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

Sentence Examples

Please tell me how to use laundry starch to starch things.

Starch degradation is linked to a circadian clock.

CEFR Practice Quiz

Potatoes are a good dietary source of ____, which is a complex carbohydrate for energy.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Potatoes contain a lot of ____, which provides a good source of energy for the human body.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances." — 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:

"this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits" — 1712 February 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, February 19, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 305; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

"The thought of the gun in his back put some starch in him. He needed the handrail, and he limped step by step, but he ascended at his full height." — 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 98:

"You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you" — 1928, “You're the Cream in My Coffee”, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics):

"misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing" — 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects:

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