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Taste
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- 1 Deliberate misspelling of tasty. Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, not-comparable
- 1 One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. countable, uncountable
"He had a strange taste in his mouth."
- 2 a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds wordnet
- 3 The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. countable, uncountable
"His taste was impaired by an illness."
- 4 the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth wordnet
- 5 A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. countable, uncountable
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- 6 the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus wordnet
- 7 A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. countable, uncountable
"Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."
- 8 delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) wordnet
- 9 Personal preference; liking; predilection. countable, uncountable
"I have developed a taste for fine wine."
- 10 a brief experience of something wordnet
- 11 A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward."
- 12 a strong liking wordnet
- 13 A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. countable, uncountable
- 14 a small amount eaten or drunk wordnet
- 1 To sample the flavor of something orally. transitive
"when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine"
- 2 experience briefly wordnet
- 3 To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished. copulative, intransitive
"The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."
- 4 take a sample of wordnet
- 5 To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally. transitive
"I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake."
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- 6 perceive by the sense of taste wordnet
- 7 To experience. figuratively, transitive
"I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."
- 8 distinguish flavors wordnet
- 9 To take sparingly.
"1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours."
- 10 have flavor; taste of something wordnet
- 11 To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
"I tasted a little of this honey."
- 12 have a distinctive or characteristic taste wordnet
- 13 To try by the touch; to handle. obsolete
"to taste the bow"
Etymology
From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).
From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).
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