Starch vs. Powder: What's the Difference?

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.

A substance consisting of ground, pulverized, or otherwise finely dispersed solid particles.

Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.

Any of various preparations in the form of powder, as certain cosmetics and medicines.

Starches Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.

A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder.

Stiff behavior

Light dry snow.

Vigor; mettle

To turn into or produce as a powder

To stiffen with starch.

To put powder on

(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.

To strew or ornament with small objects or flecks

Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.

(uncountable) Fortitude.

An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.

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

(informal) powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.

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

Ellipsis of powder blue; the colour powder blue.

Stiff; precise; rigid.

(transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.

Stiff; precise; rigid.

(transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.

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.

(intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.

Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(intransitive) To turn into powder; to become powdery.

To stiffen with starch.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

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

To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".

Stiffen with starch;

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.

To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.

To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.

A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized

A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks

Any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a powder

Apply powder to;

Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust;