different between starch vs glue

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 Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin gl?s (stem gl?t-), from Latin gl?ten. Related to clay.

Displaced native Old English l?m (“glue”) and ?el?man (“to glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?lju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues)

1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. (figuratively) Anything that binds two things or people together.
3. (obsolete) Birdlime.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or glueing, simple past and past participle glued)

1. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
2. (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

Synonyms

• (join with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste
• (adhere closely): adhere, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

Derived terms

• screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Further reading

• glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guel, UGLE, gule, luge

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu.

Noun

glue

2. Alternative form of glew (“glue”).

Etymology 2

From Old English gl?wian.

Verb

glue

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).