taste

1. 1

   One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.countableuncountable

   • He had a strange taste in his mouth.
   • Venison has a strong taste.
2. 2

   The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.countableuncountable

   • His taste was impaired by an illness.
3. 3

   A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.countableuncountable

4. 4

   A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.countableuncountable

   • Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
5. 5

   Personal preference; liking; predilection.countableuncountable

   • I have developed a taste for fine wine.
6. 6

   A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.countablefigurativelyuncountable

   • Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
7. 7

   A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.countableuncountable

8. 8

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

   • "So he opened the door very quitely, an' didn't make a taste o' n'ise in the wurld, an' luked all about, but the niver a bit o' the little man cud he see anywhare, but he h'ard his hammerin' and whis'lin', an' so he luked and luked, till at

syn. smatch

1. 1

   To sample the flavor of something orally.transitive

   • when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
2. 2

   To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.copulativeintransitive

   • The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
3. 3

   To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.transitive

   • I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
4. 4

   To experience.figurativelytransitive

   • I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
   • They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
5. 5

   To take sparingly.

   • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20
6. 6

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

   • I tasted a little of this honey.
7. 7

   To try by the touch; to handle.obsolete

   • to taste the bow

syn. smake · smack · gust · smatch · taste

1. 1

   Deliberate misspelling of tasty.Internetalt-ofdeliberate