starchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /stɑɹtʃ/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /stɑːtʃ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ

名詞

starch (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 starches)

1. (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.
2. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
   • 1712 March 1, Joseph Addison, “TUESDAY, February 19, 1711–1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 305; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     this Professor is to give the society their stiffening, and infuse into their manners that beautiful political starch, which may qualify them for Levées, Conferences, Visits

4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
   • 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 98:

     The thought of the gun in his back put some starch in him. He needed the handrail, and he limped step by step, but he ascended at his full height.

5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

派生語

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

動詞

starch (三人称単数 現在形 starches, 現在分詞 starching, 過去形および過去分詞形 starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

形容詞

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.
   • 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects

     misrepresenting Sobriety as a Starch and Formal, and Vertue as a Laborious and Slavish thing

派生語

• starchness