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Definition of 'Taste'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) taste
to test the flavor or quality of by taking some into the mouth.

2.  taste
to eat or drink a little of.

3.  taste
to eat or drink:
He hadn't tasted food for three days.

4.  taste
to perceive or distinguish the flavor of:
to taste the wine in a sauce.

5.  taste
to experience, esp. to only a slight degree.

6.  taste
Archaic. to enjoy or appreciate.

7. (v.i.) taste
to try the flavor or quality of something.

8.  taste
to eat or drink a little (usu. fol. by of).

9.  taste
to perceive or distinguish the flavor of anything.

10.  taste
to have a particular flavor:
The coffee tastes bitter.

11.  taste
to have experience, however limited (usu. fol. by of):
to taste of victory even in defeat.

12. (n.) taste
the sense by which the flavor or savor of things is perceived when they are brought into contact with the tongue.

13.  taste
the sensation or quality as perceived by this sense; flavor.

14.  taste
the act of tasting food or drink.

15.  taste
a small quantity tasted.

16.  taste
a relish, liking, or partiality for something:
a taste for music.

17.  taste
a sense of what is fitting, harmonious, or beautiful.

18.  taste
a sense of what is polite, tactful, etc., to say or do in a given social situation.

19.  taste
one's attitude toward or display of aesthetic or social values, regarded as good or bad:
elegant taste in clothes; jokes in poor taste.

20.  taste
the ideas or preferences typical of a culture or an individual in regard to what is beautiful or harmonious:
a sample of Victorian taste.

21.  taste
a slight experience of something:
a taste of adventure.

22.  taste
a feeling or sensation resulting from an experience:
a compromise that had left her with a bad taste.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME: to touch, taste < OF taster to touch, explore by touching < VL *tastāre, prob. by contr. from *taxitāre, freq. of L taxāre to handle (see tax ))

Definition of 'Taste'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
"the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"

2. (noun) preference, penchant, predilection, taste
a strong liking
"my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

3. (noun) taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
"arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

4. (noun) taste
a brief experience of something
"he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"

5. (noun) taste, mouthful
a small amount eaten or drunk
"take a taste--you'll like it"

6. (noun) taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
"his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

7. (verb) taste, tasting
a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
"a wine tasting"

8. (verb) taste, savor, savour
have flavor; taste of something

9. (verb) taste
perceive by the sense of taste
"Can you taste the garlic?"

10. (verb) sample, try, try out, taste
take a sample of
"Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

11. (verb) smack, taste
have a distinctive or characteristic taste
"This tastes of nutmeg"

12. (verb) taste
distinguish flavors
"We tasted wines last night"

13. (verb) taste
experience briefly
"The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

Definition of 'Taste'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) taste
the flavor sth has in your mouth
a fruit with an unusual taste; the taste of mustard

2.  taste
the ability to sense different flavors in your mouth
a very refined sense of taste

3.  taste
the ability to judge whether a piece of music, art, fashion, etc. is good or bad
He obviously has no taste whatsoever!; a comedy show that is in very bad taste; She has good taste in shoes.

4. (verb) taste
good/bad taste
to have a particular flavor in your mouth
candy that tastes like strawberries; The soup tasted disgusting.

5.  taste
to put sth in your mouth to find out what flavor it has
Taste this, and tell me if you like it.

Definition of 'Taste'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Taste
the act of tasting; gustation

2. (noun) Taste
a particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste

3. (noun) Taste
the one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste

4. (noun) Taste
intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study

5. (noun) Taste
the power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment

6. (noun) Taste
manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste

7. (noun) Taste
essay; trial; experience; experiment

8. (noun) Taste
a small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit

9. (noun) Taste
a kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon

10. (verb) Taste
to try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow

11. (verb) Taste
to try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively

12. (verb) Taste
to try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of

13. (verb) Taste
to become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo

14. (verb) Taste
to partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure

15. (verb) Taste
to try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine

16. (verb) Taste
to have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic

17. (verb) Taste
to take sparingly

18. (verb) Taste
to have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty

Definitions of 'Taste'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Taste
1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also tasty, tasteful, tastefulness. “This feature comes in N tasty flavors.” Although tasty and flavorful are essentially synonyms, taste and flavor are not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or feature can exhibit taste but cannot have taste. On the other hand, a feature can have flavor. Also, flavor has the additional meaning of ‘kind’ or ‘variety’ not shared by taste. The marked sense of flavor is more popular than taste, though both are widely used. See also elegant.

2. Alt. sp. of tayste.

Definition of 'Taste'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. Taste
The ability to detect chemicals through gustatory receptors in the mouth, including those on the TONGUE; the PALATE; the PHARYNX; and the EPIGLOTTIS.

Translation of 'Taste'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something I can taste ginger in this cake.
Afrikaans: proe	Arabic: يَذوق	Bulgarian: усещам
Brazilian: sentir	Czech: cítit (jazykem)	German: schmecken
Danish: smage	Greek: γεύομαι, νιώθω γεύση	Spanish: notar/sentir el sabor
Estonian: maitset tundma	Farsi: مزه ای را تشخیص دادن	Finnish: maistaa
French: goûter, sentir	Hebrew: לִטעוֹם	Hindi: स्वाद लेना
Croatian: okusiti	Hungarian: érzi (vminek) az ízét	Indonesian: merasakan
Icelandic: finna bragð af	Italian: gustare, sentire	Japanese: ～の味を感じる
Korean: 맛을 느끼다	Lithuanian: jausti (skonį)	Latvian: just garšu
Malay: merasa	Dutch: proeven	Norwegian: smake (av)
Polish: czuć (smak)	Persian: مزه ای را تشخیص دادن	Pashto: څكل، خوند كتل، اّزمايل، ت
Portuguese: sentir	Romanian: a simţi gustul	Russian: чувствовать вкус
Slovak: cítiť (chuť)	Slovenian: čutiti	Serbian: osetiti
Swedish: känna smak[en] av	Thai: ได้รู้ถึง	Turkish: tadını almak
Taiwanese: 嘗到，感到	Ukrainian: відчувати смак	Urdu: پہچاننا
Vietnamese: nhận ra mùi vị	Chinese: 尝到，感到
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