Starch vs. Powder: What's the Difference?

Starch and Powder Definitions
Starch
A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.
Powder
A substance consisting of ground, pulverized, or otherwise finely dispersed solid particles.
Starch
Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.
Powder
Any of various preparations in the form of powder, as certain cosmetics and medicines.
Starch
Starches Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.
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Powder
A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder.
Starch
Stiff behavior
"Dobbs, the butler ... isn't as stiff as he used to be.
Ann, my brother's new wife, has loosened up his starch a bit" (Jennifer St. Giles).
Powder
Light dry snow.
Starch
Vigor; mettle
"Business travel can take the starch out of the most self-assured corporate titan" (Lisa Faye Kaplan).
Powder
To turn into or produce as a powder
Tea that is powdered.
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Starch
To stiffen with starch.
Powder
To put powder on
Powdered the cake with sugar.
Starch
(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.
Powder
To strew or ornament with small objects or flecks
The stars powdered the sky.
Starch
Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
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Powder
The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
Starch
(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Powder
(cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
Starch
(uncountable) Fortitude.
Powder
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
Starch
(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
Powder
(informal) powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
Starch
To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
She starched her blouses.
Powder
Ellipsis of powder blue; the colour powder blue.
Starch
Stiff; precise; rigid.
Powder
(transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
Starch
Stiff; precise; rigid.
Powder
(transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
To powder one's hair
Starch
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.
Powder
(intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.
Starch
Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Powder
(intransitive) To turn into powder; to become powdery.
Starch
To stiffen with starch.
Powder
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
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
Powder
To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
Starch
Stiffen with starch;
Starch clothes
Powder
The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
Grind their bones to powder small.
Powder
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
Powder
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
Powder
To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seestPowdered with stars.
Powder
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
Powder
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
Powder
To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Powder
A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
Powder
A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
Powder
Any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a powder
Powder
Apply powder to;
She powdered her nose
The King wears a powdered wig
Powder
Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust;
Pulverize the grains