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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



... This was luxury to one who had slept the night before in the rain, or worse, perhaps, in some shamble in a filthy Greek village. This was hardship, but I came to love it for the action and the forgetfulness. In the brief weeks of an opera-bouffe war I had my first taste of great adventure, and once knowing the joy of it I forgot for a time my academic ideas on the absurdity of international quarrels, and was happy only when I rode ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... sweeping proscriptions of entire classes were not yet to the taste of the nation. Petitions from the country, and even one from the department of the Seine, were presented to Louis, begging him to refuse his assent to the decree against the priests; and the feeling which they represented was so strong, and the reputation of some of the petitioners stood ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge
... and lead covering are necessary, for if the gas evolved during the process of sublimation came in contact with the iron surface, the gas would be contaminated and the iron corroded. Sublimed sal-ammoniac has a fibrous texture and is tough and difficult to powder. It has a sharp, salty taste and is soluble in two and a half parts of cold and in a much smaller quantity of hot water. During the process of sublimation the ammonia is not decomposed. But there are several ways in which the gas may be ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various
... If you taste any want of worldly means, Let not that discontent you: know me your friend, That hath, ...
— The Laws of Candy - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... upon his beautiful humpy back he'll begin moaning and groaning and sighing as if there never was such an ill-used animal before. Oh, they're queer beasts, and no mistake. I'd like to drive that fellow; that's what I should like to do. He'd taste ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn


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