taste

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See also: Taste, tašte, and tāste

English

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Etymology

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”). 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”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teɪst/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪst

Noun

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

  1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
    He had a strange taste in his mouth.
    Venison has a strong taste.
  2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
    His taste was impaired by an illness.
  3. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
    Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
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      "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; […]."
    • 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.
  4. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
    I have developed a taste for fine wine.
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
  6. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

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Terms derived from taste (noun)

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Verb

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  1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, John 2:9
      when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
  2. (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.
  3. To experience.
    I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
    They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
  4. To take sparingly.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
  5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 1 Samuel 14:29
      I tasted a little of this honey.
  6. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      to taste a bow

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Danish

Verb

taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)

  1. To type

Conjugation

Inflection of taste
present past
simple taster tastede
perfect har tastet havde tastet
passive tastes tastedes
participle tastende tastet
imperative tast —
infinitive taste —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund — —

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

taste

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten

German

Verb

taste

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of tasten.
  2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of tasten.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of tasten.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)

  1. to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

taste (Cyrillic spelling тасте)

  1. vocative singular of tast
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