The difference between Polysaccharide and Starch
When used as nouns, polysaccharide means a polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds, whereas starch means 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.
Starch is also verb with the meaning: to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
Starch is also adjective with the meaning: stiff.
check bellow for the other definitions of Polysaccharide and Starch
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Polysaccharide as a noun (carbohydrate):
A polymer made of many saccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds.
Examples:
"Cellulose, starches, and complex carbohydrates, such as glycogen, are common polysaccharides in biology."
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Starch as a noun (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.
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Starch as a noun (nutrition, countable):
Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
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Starch as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):
A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Examples:
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Starch as a noun (countable):
Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
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Starch as a verb:
To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
Examples:
"She starched her blouses."
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Starch as an adjective:
Stiff; precise; rigid.
Examples:
"rfquotek Killingbeck"