taste

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From Middle English tasten, from Old French taster from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitare, a new iterative of Latin taxare (to touch sharply), from tangere (to touch). Replaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (to taste) (from Old English smacian (to taste)), Middle English smecchen (to taste, smack) (from Old English smeccan (to taste)), Middle English buriȝen (to taste) (from Old English byrigan, birian (to taste)).

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taste (countable and uncountable; plural tastes)

  1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.
  2. (countable and uncountable): A person’s implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
    Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
  3. (uncountable, figuratively): A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

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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) To have a taste.
    The chicken tasted great.
  3. To experience.
    Voltaire is quoted to have said "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise".
    Livy is quoted to have said "They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom".

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taste

  1. singular present subjunctive of tasten.

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taste

  1. First-person singular present of tasten.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
  4. Imperative singular of tasten.
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