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Definition: STARCHING |
STARCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Starch |
Date "STARCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Finishing operation. . which. . helps. . . to bring about the desired results on cloth. . . . When garments are washed, they are starched, as well as ironed, so that they may be brought back to the "good as new" state. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STARCHING |
| Specialty definitions using "STARCHING": ASSEMBLER, WET WASH ♦ net checker-hanger. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
starching | 2 |
bdu starching tip | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STARCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | presse til stivning af flipper og manchetter paa skjorter (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pers voor het stijven van boorden en manchetten van overhemden (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | presse empeser les cols et manchettes de chemises (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Presse zum Versteifen von Kragen und Manschetten an Oberhemden (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρέσσα για το κολλάρισμα των γιακάδων και των μανικετιών πουκαμίσων (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pressa che serve ad inamidare i colli e i polsini delle camicie (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | starkaghey (rigor, set, starch, stiffen), starkagh (rigor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | archingstay prensa para engomar os colarinhos e os punhos de camisas (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) крахмалить подкрахмаливание. (various references) prensa para almidonar los cuellos y los puños de las camisas (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STARCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Siaochang, stiching, Strahinja. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: archings, chagrins, charting, crashing, scarting, scathing, tracings, trashing. | |
-2 letters: actings, arching, carting, cashing, casting, chagrin, charing, chasing, crating, garnish, gastric, gastrin, gnathic, gratins, hasting, narcist, racings, ratings, sacring, scaring, scraigh, sharing, staring, tarnish, tracing, tragics. | |
-3 letters: aching, acting, actins, airths, antics, arcing, aright, arshin, ashing, cairns, canthi, caring, casing, chains, chairs, changs, chants. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: scratching. | |
+2 letters: charmingest, latchstring. | |
+3 letters: haircuttings, interchanges, latchstrings, roughcasting, scintigraphy, stenographic. | |
+4 letters: archegoniates, crosshatching, flowchartings, histaminergic, interchangers, orchestrating, scintigraphic, shortchanging. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters, cinematographs, countershading, magnetospheric, phantasmagoric, scintigraphies. | |
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