starch

As nouns the difference between starch and glue

is that starch is 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 while glue is a hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

As verbs the difference between starch and glue

is that starch is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface while glue is to join or attach something using glue.

As an adjective starch

is stiff; precise; rigid.

As nouns the difference between starch and stench

is that 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 while stench is a strong foul smell, a stink.

As verbs the difference between starch and stench

is that starch is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface while stench is (obsolete) to cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.

As an adjective starch

is stiff; precise; rigid.

As a noun 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 a verb starch is

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

As an adjective starch is

stiff; precise; rigid.

As nouns the difference between starch and null

is that 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 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb starch

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

As an adjective starch

is stiff; precise; rigid.

As a noun 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 a verb starch is

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

As an adjective starch is

stiff; precise; rigid.

As adjectives the difference between starch and statch

is that starch is stiff; precise; rigid while statch is {{cx|slang|lang=en}} statutory.

As a noun starch

is 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 a verb starch

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

As nouns the difference between starch and stanch

is that 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 while stanch is that which stanches or checks.

As verbs the difference between starch and stanch

is that starch is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface while stanch is to stop the flow of.

As adjectives the difference between starch and stanch

is that starch is stiff; precise; rigid while stanch is strong and tight; sound; firm.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and starch

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification 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 a verb starch is

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

As an adjective starch is

stiff; precise; rigid.