taste

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Synonyms: haste, baste, waste, caste, paste, tate, tasty, easte, tasse, tasto, raste

Antonyms: haste, baste, waste, caste, paste, tate, tasty, easte, tasse, tasto, raste

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Noun

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.
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.
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.
The least amount or portion of something; a jot.

To sample the flavor of something orally.
To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
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.
To try by the touch; to handle.

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