O verbo aparece no inglês médio tardio com o sentido de endurecer com goma e se liga a formas do inglês antigo que significavam tornar rígido. O substantivo primeiro nomeou uma pasta usada para endurecer ou branquear tecido, depois o carboidrato vegetal dos alimentos.
Perguntas frequentes
O que starch significa na comida?
Starch significa amido, um carboidrato vegetal feito de glicose ligada, comum em batatas, arroz, milho e trigo.
Starch é o mesmo que sugar?
Não. Starch é um carboidrato complexo com muitas unidades de glicose, enquanto table sugar é um carboidrato doce mais simples.
O que é laundry starch?
Laundry starch é goma ou amido para roupa, em pó, spray ou líquido, aplicado antes de passar para o tecido manter a forma.
Starch pode ser verbo?
Sim. To starch a shirt, collar, or napkin significa engomar uma camisa, um colarinho ou um guardanapo para deixá-los firmes.
O que significa starch figurado?
Starch figurado pode significar formalidade rígida, vigor informal ou o ato de deixar linguagem ou comportamento secos e formais.
Starch pode ser adjetivo?
Sim, mas é raro. O adjetivo starch significa formal ou rígido, especialmente sobre uma pessoa, e starchy costuma soar mais natural.
De onde vem starch?
Starch se liga a palavras germânicas antigas sobre rigidez. O sentido de endurecer tecido veio antes do sentido químico moderno.
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Loyal Hoopoe
Aug 14
starch still makes me think of school uniforms before potatoes lol
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Fond Hornbill
Aug 13
En mi casa decimos maicena para la de cocinar, almidon suena mas de quimica.
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Loyal Frog
Aug 12
never knew the shirt-collar meaning was that old, neat little word history
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Eager Macaw
Aug 10
take the starch out of him is an old US-ish idiom for knocking someone's nerve or confidence down. Real phrase, just not something I'd put in a job email.
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Wild Loon
Aug 7
i would not teach starch as an everyday adjective. 'a starchy professor' sounds normal, 'a starch professor' sounds like something from an old novel or a dictionary example
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Goofy Mole
Aug 5
Laundry starch goes on clean cloth before pressing. It won't lift collar grime, and if you overdo spray starch the iron soleplate gets gunky fast.
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Soft Quail
Jul 28
At the dry cleaner 'light starch' and 'heavy starch' are real choices. Heavy keeps collars sharp but it can feel cardboardy, especially when its hot.
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Hazel Yak
Jul 27
Plural starches is normal when you're talking food groups: bread, rice, pasta, potatoes. I wouldnt say 'the starches in this spoon of powder' unless I'm talking chemistry.
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Cloudy Lemming
Jul 24
Cooks say potato starch and cornstarch like they are interchangeable, but potato starch gives more of a clear glossy glaze. Nice for stir fry, a bit weird if you wanted brown gravy.
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Wise Beaver
Jul 23
For sauces you usually make a slurry with cold water first. If you throw dry corn starch straight into hot liquid, the outside gels and you get little white lumps that never really forgive you.
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Silver Loon
Jul 21
Recipe labels are messy here. In US recipes cornstarch is the white squeaky powder for thickening. In UK/Aus recipes cornflour often means that same thing, not yellow corn meal. I have ruined gravy with this once, dont ask