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Starch vs Statch - What's the difference?

starch | statch |

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.

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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    statch

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • statutory
  • * 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
    • I spent five straight hours walking South Crenshaw and South Western, showing Nash's mug shots and talking up his MO of statch rape on young Negro tail.