taste
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- tast (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English tasten, from Old French taster from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxitāre, a new iterative of Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Displaced 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”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. (Wikipedia).
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Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
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1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
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1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
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- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
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I have developed a taste' for fine wine.
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- (uncountable, 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch
- (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
- (personal preference): see Wikisaurus:predilection
- (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial
Hyponyms[edit]
Meronyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from taste (noun)
Translations[edit]
one of the sensations produced by the tongue
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implicit set of preferences
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(figuratively) a small amount of experience
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Verb[edit]
taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- Bible, John ii. 9
- when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
- Bible, John ii. 9
- (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- To experience.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- Shakespeare
- The valiant never taste of death but once.
- Bible, Heb. ii. 9
- He […] should taste death for every man.
- Milton
- Thou […] wilt taste / No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
- To take sparingly.
- Dryden
- Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
- Dryden
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- Bible, 1 Sam. xiv. 29
- I tasted a little of this honey.
- Bible, 1 Sam. xiv. 29
- (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
- Chapman
- to taste a bow
- Chapman
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to sample the flavor of something
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to have a taste
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to experience
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Further reading[edit]
- taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- taste in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Verb[edit]
taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)
- To type
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of taste
Derived terms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
taste
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
taste
- First-person singular present of tasten.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
- Imperative singular of tasten.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)
- to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “taste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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