Starch

//stɑɹt͡ʃ//

Synonyms for "starch" (92 found)

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Closest matches (19)

Noun(1 words)
amylum

Strong matches (27)

Related words (46)

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10 relation types

More general

6 entries

coordinate

4 entries

derived

14 entries

etymologically related_to

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has context

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is a

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manner of

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receives action

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related to

35 entries

Showing 16 of 35 words.

used for

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Translations

194 translations across 74 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • koll noun (substance)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἄμυλον noun (substance)

Arabic

1 entries
  • نَشَاء noun (substance)

Armenian

1 entries
  • օսլա noun (substance)

Assamese

1 entries
  • মাৰ noun (substance)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • крухма́л noun (substance)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • кола noun (laundry stiffener)
  • нишесте noun (carbohydrates)
  • скованост noun (stiff manner)
  • скорбяла noun (substance)

Campidanese Sardinian

4 entries
  • gròru noun (substance)
  • gròru noun (laundry stiffener)
  • madoni noun (substance)
  • madoni noun (laundry stiffener)

Catalan

3 entries
  • midó noun (substance)
  • midó noun (laundry stiffener)
  • emmidonar verb (apply laundry starch)

Cebuano

1 entries
  • tayubong noun (substance)

Chamicuro

1 entries
  • almelone noun (substance)

Chinese

1 entries
  • 澱粉 /淀粉 noun (substance)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 澱粉 /淀粉 noun (substance)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 澱粉 /淀粉 noun (substance)
  • 碳水化合物 noun (carbohydrates)

Czech

2 entries
  • škrob noun (substance)
  • škrob noun (carbohydrates)

Danish

2 entries
  • stivelse noun (substance)
  • stivelse noun (carbohydrates)

Dutch

4 entries
  • precies adj (stiff)
  • rigide adj (stiff)
  • stijf adj (stiff)
  • stijfsel noun (laundry stiffener)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • amelo noun (substance)
  • ameli verb (apply laundry starch)
  • amelumi verb (apply laundry starch)

Estonian

4 entries
  • jäik adj (stiff)
  • kalk adj (stiff)
  • kange adj (stiff)
  • kramplik adj (stiff)

Finnish

4 entries
  • jäykkä adj (stiff)
  • jäykkyys noun (stiff manner)
  • tärkkelys noun (substance)
  • tärkkelys noun (carbohydrates)

French

4 entries
  • amidon noun (substance)
  • amidon noun (carbohydrates)
  • apprêt noun (laundry stiffener)
  • cati noun (laundry stiffener)

Galician

2 entries
  • amidón noun (substance)
  • amidonar verb (apply laundry starch)

Gallurese

2 entries
  • madoni noun (substance)
  • madoni noun (laundry stiffener)

Georgian

1 entries
  • სახამებელი noun (substance)

German

4 entries
  • Steifheit noun (stiff manner)
  • Stärke noun (substance)
  • Stärke noun (carbohydrates)
  • Wäschesteife noun (laundry stiffener)

Greek

1 entries
  • άμυλο noun (substance)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries
  • 澱粉 /淀粉 noun (substance)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • עֲמִילָן noun (substance)
  • עֲמִילָן noun (carbohydrates)

Higaonon

1 entries
  • tayobong noun (substance)

Hindi

2 entries
  • कलफ़ noun (substance)
  • स्टार्च noun (substance)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • keményítő noun (substance)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • amilum noun (substance)
  • pati noun (substance)
  • pati noun (carbohydrates)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • krahmala noun (substance)

Irish

1 entries
  • ardnós noun (stiff manner)

Isoko

1 entries
  • ozi noun (substance)

Italian

4 entries
  • amido noun (substance)
  • amido noun (carbohydrates)
  • amido noun (laundry stiffener)
  • appretto noun (laundry stiffener)

Japanese

2 entries
  • デンプン noun (substance)
  • 澱粉 noun (substance)

Kalmyk

1 entries
  • цавг noun (substance)

Khmer

1 entries
  • បិដ្ឋជាតិ noun (substance)

Korean

2 entries
  • 녹말 noun (substance)
  • 전분 noun (substance)

Lao

1 entries
  • ທາດແປ້ງ noun (substance)

Latin

1 entries
  • amylum noun (substance)

Latvian

3 entries
  • ciete noun (substance)
  • ciete noun (carbohydrates)
  • stērķele noun (substance)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • krakmolas noun (substance)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • ни́шесте noun (substance)
  • нишесте noun (carbohydrates)
  • скроб noun (substance)
  • скроб noun (carbohydrates)

Malay

1 entries
  • kanji noun (substance)

Maltese

1 entries
  • lamtu noun (substance)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • цардуул noun (substance)

Māori

3 entries
  • māngaro noun (substance)
  • tāhi noun (substance)
  • tāhi noun (carbohydrates)

Norman

1 entries
  • amidon noun (substance)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • nîşa noun (carbohydrates)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries
  • stivelse noun (substance)
  • stivelse noun (carbohydrates)
  • stivelse noun (laundry stiffener)
  • stivhet noun (stiff manner)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • stivelse noun (substance)

Occitan

2 entries
  • amidon noun (substance)
  • empés noun (substance)

Ojibwe

1 entries
  • mashkawajininjiiwaji-waabishki noun (substance)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • نشاسته noun (substance)

Persian

1 entries
  • نشاسته noun (substance)

Polish

4 entries
  • krochmal noun (laundry stiffener)
  • skrobia noun (substance)
  • skrobia noun (carbohydrates)
  • sztywność noun (stiff manner)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • duro adj (stiff)
  • preciso adj (stiff)
  • rígido adj (stiff)
  • amido noun (substance)

Romanian

1 entries
  • amidon noun (substance)

Russian

3 entries
  • крахма́л noun (substance)
  • крахма́л noun (laundry stiffener)
  • накрахма́ливать verb (apply laundry starch)

Sardinian

4 entries
  • madone noun (substance)
  • madone noun (laundry stiffener)
  • midone noun (substance)
  • midone noun (laundry stiffener)

Sassarese

2 entries
  • madoni noun (substance)
  • madoni noun (laundry stiffener)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • uštogljeno adj (stiff)
  • skrob noun (carbohydrates)
  • uštogljenost noun (stiff manner)
  • škrob noun (substance)

Slovak

4 entries
  • škrob noun (substance)
  • škrob noun (carbohydrates)
  • naškrobiť verb (apply laundry starch)
  • škrobiť verb (apply laundry starch)

Slovene

1 entries
  • škrob noun (substance)

Spanish

4 entries
  • almidón noun (substance)
  • almidón noun (carbohydrates)
  • almidón noun (laundry stiffener)
  • fécula noun (substance)

Swedish

3 entries
  • stärkelse noun (substance)
  • stärkelse noun (carbohydrates)
  • stärka verb (apply laundry starch)

Tagalog

3 entries
  • almirol noun (substance)
  • almirol noun (carbohydrates)
  • almirol noun (laundry stiffener)

Thai

3 entries
  • แป้ง noun (substance)
  • แป้ง noun (carbohydrates)
  • ลงแป้ง verb (apply laundry starch)

Turkish

3 entries
  • kola noun (laundry stiffener)
  • nişasta noun (substance)
  • çamaşır kolası noun (laundry stiffener)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • krahmal noun (substance)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • крохма́ль noun (substance)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • tinh bột noun (substance)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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Come to that the uniform had a bit more starch than that I usually wear, it's a bit uncomfortable.

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Please tell me how to use laundry starch to starch things.

Source: tatoeba (329193)

Starch degradation is linked to a circadian clock.

Source: tatoeba (1172818)

Corn starch is good for thickening soup.

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