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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tastingnoun

    a small amount (especially of food or wine)

  2. taste, tastingnoun

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

    "a wine tasting"

  3. tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustationnoun

    taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

    "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"

Wiktionary

  1. tastingnoun

    A small amount of food or drink.

  2. tastingnoun

    The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.

Wikipedia

  1. tasting

    Dégustation is the careful, appreciative tasting of various food, focusing on the gustatory system, the senses, high culinary art and good company. Dégustation is more likely to involve sampling small portions of all of a chef's signature dishes in one sitting. Usually consisting of many courses, it may be accompanied by a matching wine degustation which complements each dish.

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  1. tasting

    Tasting refers to the act of perceiving and evaluating the flavor or quality of food or drink by the sense of taste, often in small amounts for the purpose of enjoyment, critique, or testing. It can also refer to a specific event where small quantities of food or drink are sampled for evaluation or pleasure.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tasting

    of Taste

  2. Tastingnoun

    the act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tasting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tasting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tasting in a Sentence

  1. Greg Madden:

    The rewards can be used to encourage children to repeatedly try fruits and vegetables, and there is some evidence to suggest that repeatedly tasting novel foods increases their acceptability.

  2. Charles Caleb Colton:

    We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  3. Charles Caleb Colton:

    We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  4. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

    Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

  5. Carlos Eliason:

    We're evaluating different treatment technologies to adapt to some of these( dry) conditions, our goal is always to provide high quality, good-tasting drinking water and we want to do that as much as possible.

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