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STARCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("starch" is a kind of...):

formulation; preparation (a substance prepared according to a formula)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

Synonyms:

amylum; starch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("starch" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "starch"):

arum (starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root)

cassava; cassava starch; manioc; manioca (a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)

arrowroot (a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant)

cornflour; cornstarch (starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener)

sago (powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener)

amyloid (a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch)

Otaheite arrowroot; Otaheite arrowroot starch (a starch obtained from the root of the pia)

Derivation:

starch (stiffen with starch)

starchy (consisting of or containing starch)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stiffen with starch

Example:

starch clothes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "starch" is one way to...):

stiffen (make stiff or stiffer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

starch (a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles)

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A starch consisting of alpha-D glucose monomers connected by a 1-4 bond and by a 1-6 bond every 24-30 glucose monomers.

(Amylopectin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

In addition, acarbose inhibits pancreatic alpha-amylase which hydrolyzes complex starches to oligosaccharides in the small intestines.

(Acarbose, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of hydrolases that cleaves alpha-linkages in polysaccharides, such as starch and glycogen, and yield glucose and maltose.

(Alpha-Amylase, NCI Thesaurus)

Amilomer, a product produced by partially hydrolyzing starch and epichlorohydrin, contains degradable starch microspheres (DSM) with a diameter size of 45 micrometers that are readily degraded by amylase.

(Amilomer, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, and hydrolyzes starch, gelatin, and oxidase.

(Bacillus mycoides, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, indole negative, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, reduces nitrate, and hydrolyzes starch and esculin.

(Bacillus polymyxa, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole and lipase negative, stimulated by bile, reduces nitrate, produces hydrogen sulfide, does not hydrolyze starch or esculin, and most strains are urease positive.

(Bilophila wadsworthia, NCI Thesaurus)

This oral formulation, which consists of DIM, d-alpha-tocopheryl acid succinate, phosphatidylcholine, and silica microencapsulated in starch, significantly improves the gastrointestinal absorption of DIM.

(Oral Microencapsulated Diindolylmethane, NCI Thesaurus)

Lipase, protease and amylase break down fat, protein, and starches, respectively in the small intestine, thereby promoting digestion.

(Pancrelipase, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is indole negative, hydrolyzes starch, requires hemin for growth and reduces resazurin but not neutral red.

(Parabacteroides distasonis, NCI Thesaurus)