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English

Etymology

From Middle English starche (noun), from *starche, sterch (“stiff”, adj), an assibilated form of Middle English stark, sterk (“strong; stiff”), from Old English stearc (“stark; strong; rough”). Compare Middle High German sterke, German Stärke. More at stark.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

starch (countable and uncountable, plural starches)

1. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially 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.
2. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

   • 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

4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

Translations

Verb

starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

Translations

Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.
   • 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects

     misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

Derived terms

• starchness

Translations

References

• starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• charts, crasht, trachs

Cimbrian

Adjective

starch

1. strong
2. loud

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

English

Etymology

From amyl +? -oid.

Noun

amyloid (plural amyloids)

1. A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis.
2. Any of various starchlike substances.

Translations

Adjective

amyloid (comparative more amyloid, superlative most amyloid)

1. Containing or resembling starch.
2. (mycology) Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent

Derived terms

• amyloidity

Translations

See also

• dextrinoid
• inamyloid
• nonamyloid
• pseudoamyloid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amylo?i?t/

Adjective

amyloid (comparative amyloider, superlative am amyloidesten)

1. amyloid

Declension

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.m??l?.it/

Noun

amyloid m inan

1. (medicine) amyloid (protein compound)

Declension

Related terms

• amyloidoza

Further reading

• amyloid in Polish dictionaries at PWN