different between starch vs farinaceous
starch
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)
- (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.
- (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- (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
- (uncountable) Fortitude.
- (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)
- To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
- She starched her blouses.
Translations
Adjective
starch (not comparable)
- 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
- 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects
Derived terms
- starchness
Translations
References
- starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- charts, crasht, trachs
Cimbrian
Adjective
starch
- strong
- loud
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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farinaceous
English
Alternative forms
- farinacious (obsolete spelling)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fæ???ne???s/
- Rhymes: -e???s
Etymology
From Latin farinaceus.
Adjective
farinaceous (comparative more farinaceous, superlative most farinaceous)
- Made from, or rich in, starch or flour.
- 1870, Eustace Smith, On the Wasting Diseases of infants and children, Henry C. Lea (publisher), page 28:
- The very fact that the secretion of saliva in the young child does not become established until the third month after birth, seems to indicate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant, as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods.
- 1895, Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, p. 208:
- As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price of bread makes so large a drain on the resources of the poorer labouring families and raises so much the marginal utility of money to them, that they are forced to curtail their consumption of meat and the more expensive farinaceous foods: and, bread being still the cheapest food which they can get and will take, they consume more, and not less of it […]
- 1870, Eustace Smith, On the Wasting Diseases of infants and children, Henry C. Lea (publisher), page 28:
- Having a floury texture; grainy.
- 2007 May 22, Victoria Summerley, “It does us good to get our hands dirty”, in The Independent Online:
- In the Great Pavilion, the nurserymen and women have been employing their dark arts, too; coaxing agapanthus into bloom two months early, cosseting iris with wads of strategically placed cotton wool or touching up the farinaceous, fan-shaped fronds of a Bismarck palm with face powder.
- 2007 May 22, Victoria Summerley, “It does us good to get our hands dirty”, in The Independent Online:
See also
- farina
Translations
Anagrams
- neurofascia
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