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Starch vs Stanch - What's the difference?

starch | stanch |

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.

starch

English

(wikipedia starch)

Noun

  • (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.
    • (Addison)
  • (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

    • Derived terms

    * starchy * cornstarch * potato starch

    Verb

  • To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
    • She starched her blouses.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Stiff; precise; rigid.
    • (Killingbeck)

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    stanch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * staunch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To stop the flow of.
    • A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
  • To cease, as the flowing of blood.
  • * Bible, Luke viii. 44
    • Immediately her issue of blood stanched .
  • To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
  • * Emerson
    • His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
  • To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • That which stanches or checks.
  • A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
    • (Knight)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Strong and tight; sound; firm.
    • a stanch ship
  • * Evelyn
    • One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
  • Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
    • a stanch''' churchman; a '''stanch friend or adherent
  • * Prior
    • In politics I hear you're stanch .
  • Close; secret; private.
  • * John Locke
    • this to be kept stanch

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