Bulb vs Starch - What's the difference?
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Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb.
The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
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(nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
(uncountable) 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.
(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
(uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
Stiff; precise; rigid.
As nouns the difference between bulb and starch
is that bulb is any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end while starch is (uncountable) 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.As verbs the difference between bulb and starch
is that bulb is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell while starch is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.As a adjective starch is
stiff; precise; rigid.bulb
English
Noun
(en noun)- the bulb of the aorta
- the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .
Derived terms
* lampbulb * light bulb * flash bulb * tulip bulbAnagrams
*starch
English
(wikipedia starch)Noun
- (Addison)
Derived terms
* starchy * cornstarch * potato starchVerb
- She starched her blouses.
Adjective
(-)- (Killingbeck)