taste

[taste]

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

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

Noun
a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting"

Noun
the faculty of taste; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

Noun
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"

Noun
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"

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

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

Noun
a small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you''ll like it"

Verb
experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"

Verb
take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

Verb
perceive by the sense of taste; "Can you taste the garlic?"

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distinguish flavors; "We tasted wines last night"

Verb
have flavor; taste of something

Verb
have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg"

v. t.
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

v. t.
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.

v. t.
To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To take sparingly.

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

n.
The act of tasting; gustation.

n.
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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Essay; trial; experience; experiment.

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

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A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Taste

Taste , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.] [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.] 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.] Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
2. 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.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
5. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.

Taste

Taste, v. i. 1. 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. 2. 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.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action.
3. To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Taste

Taste, n. 1. The act of tasting; gustation. 2. 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. (Physiol.) 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. &hand; Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papill'91 on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to sweet and acid substances. 4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no taste Of popular applause.
5. 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. 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. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak. 8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit. Bacon. 9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. Syn. -- Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout. -- Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of anything which deserves the name. An original sense of the beautiful is just as necessary to '91sthetic judgments, as a sense of right and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions or moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with the progress of the individual and of society at large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it is in the development of these laws that we find the true "standard of taste."
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
Taste of buds, ∨ Taste of goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.

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

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.

The act of tasting; gustation.

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Usage Examples

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.