Definitions for taste
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perceptionnoun

   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. preference, penchant, predilection, tastenoun

   a strong liking

   "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

3. taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptivenessnoun

   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. tastenoun

   a brief experience of something

   "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"

5. taste, mouthfulnoun

   a small amount eaten or drunk

   "take a taste--you'll like it"

6. taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modalitynoun

   the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth

   "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

7. taste, tastingverb

   a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds

   "a wine tasting"

8. taste, savor, savourverb

   have flavor; taste of something

9. tasteverb

   perceive by the sense of taste

   "Can you taste the garlic?"

10. sample, try, try out, tasteverb

    take a sample of

    "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

11. smack, tasteverb

    have a distinctive or characteristic taste

    "This tastes of nutmeg"

12. tasteverb

    distinguish flavors

    "We tasted wines last night"

13. tasteverb

    experience briefly

    "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tastenoun

   One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

2. tastenoun

   A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

3. tastenoun

   A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

4. tasteverb

   To sample the flavor of something orally.

5. tasteverb

   To have a taste.

   The chicken tasted great.

6. tasteverb

   To experience.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tastenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. The act of tasting; gustation.

   Best of fruits, whose taste gave elocution. John Milton.

   2. The sense by which the relish of any thing on the palate is perceived.

   Bees delight more in one flower than another, and therefore have taste. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   Delicacies of taste, sight, smell. John Milton.

   The tardy plants in our cold orchards plac’d,
   Reserve their fruit for the next age’s taste. Edmund Waller.

   3. Sensibility; perception.

   I have almost forgot the taste of fears:
   The time has been, my senses would have cool’d
   To hear a night shriek. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Musick in the close,
   As the last taste of sweets is sweetest last. William Shakespeare, R. II.

   4.That sensation which all things taken into the mouth give particularly to the tongue, the papillæ of which are the principal instruments hereof. John Quincy

   Manna was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Exod. xvi. 31.

   Though there be a great variety of tastes, yet, as in smells, they have only some few general names. John Locke.

   5. Intellectual relish or discernment.

   Seeing they pretend no quarrel at other psalms which are in like manner appointed to be daily read, why do these so much offend and displease their tastes? Richard Hooker.

   Sion’s songs to all true tastes excelling,
   Where God is prais’d aright. John Milton.

   I have no taste
   Of popular applause. John Dryden, Spanish Friar.

   As he had no taste of true glory, we see him equipped like an Hercules, with a club and a lion’s skin. Addison.

   This metaphor would not have been so general, had there not been a conformity between the mental taste and that sensitive taste which gives us a relish of every flavour. Addison.

   Your way of life, in my taste, will be the best. Alexander Pope.

   I see how ill a taste for wit and sense prevails in the world. Jonathan Swift.

   Pleasure results from a sense to discern, and a taste to be affected with beauty. Jeremiah Seed, Sermons.

   6. An essay; a trial; an experiment. Not in use.

   I hope, for my brother’s justification, he wrote as an essay or taste of my virtue. William Shakespeare.

   7. A small portion given as a specimen.

   They thought it not safe to resolve, till they had a taste of the people’s inclination. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Besides the prayers mentioned, I shall give only a taste of some few recommended to devout persons in the manuals and offices. Edward Stillingfleet.

2. To Tasteverb

   Etymology: taster, to try, French.

   1. To perceive and distinguish by the palate.

   The ruler of the feast tasted the water made wine. John ii.

   2. To try by the mouth; to eat at least in a small quantity.

   Bold deed to taste it under ban to touch. John Milton.

   3. To essay first.

   Roscetes was seldom permitted to eat any other meat but such as the prince before tasted of. Richard Knolles.

   Thou and I marching before our troops
   May taste fate to them, mow them out a passage. Dryden.

   4. To feel; to have perception of.

   He should taste death for every man. Heb. ii. 9.

3. To Tasteverb

   1. To try by the mouth to eat.

   Of this tree we may not taste nor touch. John Milton.

   2. To have a smack; to produce on the palate a particular sensation.

   When the mouth is out of taste, it maketh things taste bitter and loathsome, but never sweet. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   When kine feed upon wild garlick, their milk tasteth of it. Francis Bacon.

   If your butter tastes of brass, it is your master’s fault, who will not allow a silver saucepan. Jonathan Swift.

   3. To distinguish intellectually.

   Scholars when good sense describing,
   Call it tasting and imbibing. Jonathan Swift.

   4. To relish intellectually; to approve.

   Thou, Adam, wilt taste no pleasure. John Milton.

   5. To be tinctured, or receive some quality or character.

   Ev’ry idle, nice, and wanton reason
   Shall, to the king, taste of this action. William Shakespeare.

   6. To try the relish of any thing.

   The body’s life with meats and air is fed,
   Therefore the soul doth use the tasting pow’r
   In veins, which through the tongue and palate spread,
   Distinguish ev’ry relish sweet and sour. Davies.

   7. To have perception of.

   Cowards die many times before their deaths;
   The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare.

   The tasting of death touched the righteous also, and there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness. Wisd.

   8. To take enjoyment.

   What hither brought us? not hope here to taste
   Of pleasure. John Milton.

   Of nature’s bounty men forbore to taste,
   And the best portion of the earth lay waste. Edmund Waller.

   9. To enjoy sparingly.

   This fiery game your active youth maintain’d,
   Not yet by years extinguish’d, though restrain’d;
   You season still with sports your serious hours,
   For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. Dryden.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tasteverb

   to try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow

2. Tasteverb

   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

3. Tasteverb

   to try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of

4. Tasteverb

   to become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo

5. Tasteverb

   to partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure

6. Tasteverb

   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

7. Tasteverb

   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

8. Tasteverb

   to take sparingly

9. Tasteverb

   to have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty

10. Tastenoun

    the act of tasting; gustation

11. Tastenoun

    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

12. Tastenoun

    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

13. Tastenoun

    intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study

14. Tastenoun

    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

15. Tastenoun

    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

16. Tastenoun

    essay; trial; experience; experiment

17. Tastenoun

    a small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit

18. Tastenoun

    a kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Taste

   Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds. Taste, along with smell and trigeminal nerve stimulation, determines flavors, the sensory impressions of food or other substances. Humans perceive taste through sensory organs called taste buds, or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the top of the tongue. The tongue is covered with thousands of small bumps called papillae, which are easily visible to the naked eye. Within each papilla are hundreds of taste buds, the organ of taste transduction. There are between 2000 and 5000 taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat. Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells. Taste perception fades with age: On average, people lose half their taste receptors by time they turn 20. The sensation of taste can be categorized into five basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. Taste buds are able to differentiate among different tastes through detecting interaction with different molecules or ions. Sweet, umami, and bitter tastes are triggered by the binding of molecules to G protein-coupled receptors on the cell membranes of taste buds. Saltiness and sourness are perceived when alkali metal or hydrogen ions enter taste buds, respectively. As taste senses both harmful and beneficial things, all basic tastes are classified as either aversive or appetitive, depending upon the effect the things they sense have on our bodies. Sweetness helps to identify energy-rich foods, while bitterness serves as a warning sign of poisons.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Taste

   tāst, v.t. to try or perceive by the touch of the tongue or palate: to try by eating a little: to eat a little of: to partake of: to relish, enjoy: to experience: (Shak.) to enjoy carnally.—v.i. to try or perceive by the mouth: to have a flavour of.—n. the act or sense of tasting: the particular sensation caused by a substance on the tongue: the sense by which we perceive the flavour of a thing: the quality or flavour of anything: a small portion: intellectual relish or discernment: the faculty by which the mind perceives the beautiful: nice perception: choice, predilection.—adjs. Tāst′able, that may be tasted; Taste′ful, full of taste: having a high relish: showing good taste.—adv. Taste′fully.—n. Taste′fulness.—adj. Taste′less, without taste: insipid.—adv. Taste′lessly.—ns. Taste′lessness; Tāst′er, one skilful in distinguishing flavours by the taste: one whose duty it is to test the quality of food by tasting it before serving it to his master.—adv. Tāst′ily, with good taste, neatly.—n. Tāst′ing, the act or sense of tasting.—adj. Tāst′y, having a good taste: possessing nice perception of excellence: in conformity with good taste.—To one's taste, to one's liking, agreeable. [O. Fr. taster (Fr. tâter), as if from Low L. taxitāre—L. taxāre, to touch repeatedly, to estimate—tangĕre, to touch.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. taste

   To sense food or drink.

   We love to taste our food.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 17, 2020  

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1. taste

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Matched Categories

1. • Discrimination
   • Experience
   • Identify
   • Ingest
   • Know
   • Liking
   • Perceive
   • Taste

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'taste' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2974

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'taste' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2966

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'taste' in Nouns Frequency: #1063

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'taste' in Verbs Frequency: #856

Anagrams for taste »

1. state

2. State

3. teats

4. testa

5. tates

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of taste in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of taste in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of taste in a Sentence

1. Megan Ranney:

   Or they have persistent loss of taste and smell, and they're losing weight because there's no joy from eating. Or they have that kind of brain fog that we hear about with long Covid.

2. George Eliot:

   Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

3. John Zhu:

   The taste is so strong, do you see how big these bubbles are?

4. Jamie Squire/Getty Images:

   I said I’m proud of those guys. If you looked at the season that we had, to be in this game in general, it’s definitely a special group of guys that battled through adversity. The leaders on this team know that this isn’t our standard. We want to win the Super Bowl, whenever you taste winning the Super Bowl, nothing less than that is success. We have to go back – obviously every locker room is different, but we have the core group of guys that it takes to win. We have to go back and learn from this and try to be better next year.

5. Paul Wang:

   It could be muscular problems, with swallowing and chewing, but smell is a big part of taste and children with autism may not perceive smell in the same way as other children.

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