Starch vs Stench - What's the difference?
starch | stench |
(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.
a strong foul smell, a stink
(figurative) a foul quality
(obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
To stanch.
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.starch
English
(wikipedia starch)Noun
- (Addison)
Derived terms
* starchy * cornstarch * potato starchVerb
- She starched her blouses.
Adjective
(-)- (Killingbeck)
References
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*stench
English
Noun
(es)- the stench of political corruption
- Clouds of savoury stench involve the sky.
Synonyms
* (disagreeable smell) (l), (l) (Commonwealth)Antonyms
* (disagreeable smell) (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
- (Young)
- (Harvey)