taste

See also: Taste, tašte, and tāste

taste - English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA: /teɪst/

Noun

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

  1. 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.
  2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
    • His taste was impaired by an illness.
  3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
  4. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
    • Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
  5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
    • I have developed a taste for fine wine.
  6. (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.
  7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

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Verb

taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)

  1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
    • I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To experience.
    • I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
    • They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
  5. To take sparingly.
  6. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  7. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Synonyms

  • (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also taste
  • (have a taste): hint, smack; See also have taste

Derived terms

  • tastes like chicken

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taste - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): tei1 si2

Noun

taste

  1. (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)

  1. To type

Conjugation

present past
simple taster tastede
perfect har tastet havde tastet
passive tastes tastedes
participle tastende tastet
imperative tast
infinitive taste
auxiliary verb have
gerund

Derived terms

taste - Dutch

Verb

taste

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten

taste - German

Verb

taste

  1. inflection of tasten:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

taste - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /taːst/, /tast/

Noun

taste (uncountable)

  1. 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)

  1. to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)

taste - Serbo-Croatian

Noun

taste (Cyrillic spelling тасте)

  1. vocative singular of tast
Meaning and Definition of taste
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