taste
taste - English
Alternative forms
- tast (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /teɪst/
Noun
taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- He had a strange taste in his mouth.
- Venison has a strong taste.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- His taste was impaired by an illness.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- I have developed a taste for fine wine.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Synonyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also gustation
- (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
- (personal preference): See also predilection
- (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial
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Verb
taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- tastes like chicken
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Anagrams
taste - Chinese
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): tei1 si2
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: tei1 si2
- Yale: tēi sí
- Cantonese Pinyin: tei1 si2
- Guangdong Romanization: téi1 xi2
- Sinological IPA : /tʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
taste
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) taste (preference of a person)
taste - Danish
Verb
taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)
- To type
Conjugation
Derived terms
taste - Dutch
Verb
taste
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten
taste - German
Verb
taste
- inflection of tasten:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
taste - Middle English
Alternative forms
- tast, taist
Pronunciation
- IPA: /taːst/, /tast/
Noun
taste (uncountable)
- perceived flavor
Descendants
taste - Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)
- to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)
Related terms
taste - Serbo-Croatian
Noun
taste (Cyrillic spelling тасте)
- vocative singular of tast