starch

As verbs the difference between starch and laminaran

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

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 an adjective starch

is stiff; precise; rigid.

As nouns the difference between starch and glycogen

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 glycogen is (carbohydrate) a polysaccharide that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals; converted to glucose as needed.

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 verbs the difference between starch and unstarch

is that starch is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface while unstarch is to free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

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 an adjective starch

is stiff; precise; rigid.

As nouns the difference between starch and xyloidin

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 xyloidin is (organic compound|dated) a compound resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch.

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 hetastarch

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 hetastarch is hydroxyethyl starch, a non-ionic starch derivative.

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 diastatic

is that starch is stiff; precise; rigid while diastatic is (of a grain or malt) having germinated, resulting in the presence of enzymes that convert starch into sugar.

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 nouns the difference between starch and autochrome

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 autochrome is an early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion.

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 ptyalin

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 ptyalin is (enzyme) a form of amylase found in saliva that breaks down starch into maltose and dextrin.

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 amylin

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 amylin is the dextrin of starch.

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.