taste
IPA: tˈeɪst
noun
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- 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.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
verb
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
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Examples of "taste" in Sentences
- The chips are crispy and have a sweet taste.
- I do not like tang but like only sweet tastes.
- Where the sweet taste of CinnaMon is the winna mon.
- Whole foods startle with new tastes and imagination.
- The raw root is moderately sweet and tastes like the turnip.
- The meat on these scallops is very small but the taste is sweet.
- The caramel colored poultry is appetizing and the taste is sweet.
- Saliva both interacts and protects the taste receptors in the mouth.
- The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a soft sweet taste.
- It is sweet and tastes like green apples, similar in taste to pucker.
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