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Taste   /teɪst/   Listen
Taste

noun
1.
The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus.  Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation.  "The melon had a delicious taste"
2.
A strong liking.  Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference.  "The Irish have a penchant for blarney"
3.
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values).  Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness.  "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
4.
A brief experience of something.  "She enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
5.
A small amount eaten or drunk.  Synonym: mouthful.
6.
The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth.  Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste.
7.
A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds.  Synonym: tasting.
verb
(past & past part. tasted; pres. part. tasting)
1.
Have flavor; taste of something.  Synonyms: savor, savour.
2.
Perceive by the sense of taste.
3.
Take a sample of.  Synonyms: sample, try, try out.  "Sample the regional dishes"
4.
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste.  Synonym: smack.
5.
Distinguish flavors.
6.
Experience briefly.



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"Taste" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this room, though of the barest and most frigid simplicity, is yet relieved by many of those touches of taste and fancy which the indwelling of a person of sensibility and imagination will shed off upon the physical surroundings. The bed was draped with a white spread, embroidered with a kind of knotted tracery, the working ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... ravenous hosts of crocodiles seldom spare any one bold enough to excite their appetites with such dregs as usually drop from those utensils; moreover, they will follow and even board the boats, after a single taste. ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke
... shout for joy." Can our religion find no other emblem than the cross,—the instrument of torture? Mankind has pondered long the lesson of sorrow: dare it enter the whole inheritance of sonship, and taste the fullness of joy? Reality which thought and word cannot convey is bodied forth to us in music and in natural beauty. Music is the deepest voice of humanity, and beauty is the answering smile of God. When the poet-philosopher has crowded into verse all that he can express of life's ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam
... made of equal parts of good taste and reasonableness, sweet temper and humor, did not offer the least opposition to discipline, and when her mother remarked that, after all, there was a difference between a schoolgirl and a young lady, she did ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... we must introduce some of the Squire's guests to our readers. The Reverend Arthur Manley, a clever young clergyman with a taste for gardening, was talking in one corner to Miss Phipps, a pretty girl of some twenty summers. Captain Bolsover, a smart cavalry officer, together with Professor and Mrs. Smith-Smythe from Oxford, formed a small party in another corner. ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 • Various


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