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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



... find fault with me, then?" said Rosamond, understanding now that Lydgate might have said anything to Mrs. Casaubon, and that she certainly was different from other women. Perhaps there was a faint taste of jealousy in the question. A smile began to play over Dorothea's ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... said in favour of fashion, and yet how many are contented implicitly to obey its commands: its rules are not even dictated by the standard of taste, for it is constantly running into extremes and condemns one day what it approves ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 19. No. 534 - 18 Feb 1832 • Various
... though all that captivates the wise, All that endears the good exalt thy praise: Hope not to taste repose: for Envy's eyes At fairest worth still point their ...
— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]
... Letters of People of good Sense, who lament the Depravity or Poverty of Taste the Town is fallen into with relation to Plays and publick Spectacles. A Lady in particular observes, that there is such a Levity in the Minds of her own Sex, that they seldom attend any thing but Impertinences. It is indeed prodigious to observe how ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... the summer of this year she was the guest in England of the Countess of Huntingdon, whose patronage she had won by an elegiac poem on George Whitefield; in conversation even more than in verse-making she exhibited her refined taste and accomplishment, and presents were showered upon her, one of them being a copy of the magnificent 1770 Glasgow folio edition of Paradise Lost, which was given by Brook Watson, Lord Mayor of London, and which is now preserved in the library of Harvard ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley


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