taste

Meaning

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
6. A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

flavor

flavour

sense of taste

sensory evaluation

taste sensation

taste perception

gustatory perception

gustatory sensation

organoleptic examination

likes and dislikes

taste of

make a taste-test

gustatory modality

fla-vour

cause to

intellectual relish

admire

refer to

preconceived opinion

sample food

刻

国

酷

be aware

be conscious of

have a bite

石

very strong

thinking over carefully

bitter taste

sampling drink

see for oneself

smack the lips

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/teɪst/

From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buriȝen (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

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