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How to pronounce “starch”

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Pronunciation guide for starch

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of starch with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The "Greenhouse-in-a-Box" Empowering Farmers in IndiaHe knew of people who added rice starch to mud
Definition summary: (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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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The "Greenhouse-in-a-Box" Empowering Farmers in India

He knew of people who added rice starch to mud

[Noun]
(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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.
(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(uncountable) Fortitude.
(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
[Verb]
(transitive) To apply or treat with laundry starch, in order to create a hard, smooth surface.
[Adjective]
Stiff; precise; rigid.

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