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Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun taste has 7 senses

1.  taste(n = noun.cognition) gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"
is a kind of aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression
has particulars: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang, sugariness, sweet, sweetness, sour, sourness, tartness, bitter, bitterness, salinity, salt, saltiness, astringence, astringency, finish, flatness, mellowness
Derived forms verb taste2, verb taste5, verb taste1, verb taste4

2.  taste(n = noun.feeling) penchant, predilection, preference - a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
is a kind of liking
has particulars: acquired taste, weakness

3.  taste(n = noun.cognition) appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
is a kind of discrimination, secernment
has particulars: connoisseurship, vertu, virtu, style, trend, vogue, delicacy, discretion, culture

4.  taste(n = noun.event) Array - a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
is a kind of
experience
Derived form verb taste6

5.  taste(n = noun.food) mouthful - a small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you'll like it"
is a kind of small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
is a part of helping, portion, serving
has particulars: bit, bite, morsel, sup, swallow
Derived form verb taste3

6.  taste(n = noun.cognition) gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste - the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"
is a kind of modality, sense modality, sensory system, exteroception
Derived forms verb taste2, verb taste5, verb taste1, verb taste4, adjective tasty1

7.  taste(n = noun.act) tasting - a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting"
is a kind of perception, sensing
Derived forms verb taste2, verb taste5, verb taste1, verb taste4


Verb taste has 6 senses

1.  taste(v = verb.perception) savor, savour - have flavor; taste of something; Array
Derived forms noun taste7, noun taste6, noun taste1
Sample sentences: The food does taste good

2.  taste(v = verb.perception) Array - perceive by the sense of taste; "Can you taste the garlic?"
is one way to
comprehend, perceive
Derived forms noun taste7, noun taste6, noun taste1, noun tasting2
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

3.  taste(v = verb.consumption) sample, try, try out - take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"
is one way to consume, have, ingest, take, take in
Derived forms noun taste5, noun taster1, noun tasting3, noun tasting1
Sample sentences: They taste more bread

4.  taste(v = verb.perception) smack - have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg"
is one way to savor, savour, taste
Derived forms noun taste7, noun taste6, noun taste1, noun tasting2
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

5.  taste(v = verb.perception) Array - distinguish flavors; "We tasted wines last night"
is one way to
identify
Derived forms noun taste7, noun taste6, noun taste1, noun taster1
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  taste(v = verb.cognition) Array - experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died"
is one way to
experience, know, live
Derived form noun taste4
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

taste, v. t. [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.].

1.  To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. [1913 Webster]
"Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find." [1913 Webster]

2.  To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. [1913 Webster]
"When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine." [1913 Webster]
"When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse." [1913 Webster]

3.  To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. [1913 Webster]
"I tasted a little of this honey." [1913 Webster]

4.  To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo. [1913 Webster]
"He . . . should taste death for every man." [1913 Webster]

5.  To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure. [1913 Webster]
"Thou . . . wilt taste
No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
" [1913 Webster]


taste, v. i.

1.  To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine. [1913 Webster]

2.  To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic. [1913 Webster]
"Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason
Shall to the king taste of this action.
" [1913 Webster]

3.  To take sparingly. [1913 Webster]
"For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours." [1913 Webster]

4.  To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller. [1913 Webster]
"The valiant never taste of death but once." [1913 Webster]


taste, n.

1.  The act of tasting; gustation. [1913 Webster]

2.  A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste. [1913 Webster]

3.  The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste. [1913 Webster]
" Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillæ on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to sweet and acid substances." [1913 Webster]

4.  Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study. [1913 Webster]
"I have no taste
Of popular applause.
" [1913 Webster]

5.  The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment. [1913 Webster]

6.  Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste. [1913 Webster]

7.  Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak. [1913 Webster]

8.  A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted or eaten; a bit. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

9.  A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. [1913 Webster]
"What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
" [1913 Webster]

Taste buds, or Taste goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.
Syn. -- Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

taste, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the sensation characteristic of a soluble substance caused in the mouth and throat by contact with that substance (disliked the taste of garlic). b the faculty of perceiving this sensation (was bitter to the taste).
2 a small portion of food or drink taken as a sample.
3 a slight experience (a taste of success).
4 (often foll. by for) a liking or predilection (has expensive tastes; is not to my taste).
5 aesthetic discernment in art, literature, conduct, etc., esp. of a specified kind (a person of taste; dresses in poor taste).
--v.
1 tr. sample or test the flavour of (food etc.) by taking it into the mouth.
2 tr. (also absol.) perceive the flavour of (could taste the lemon; cannot taste with a cold).
3 tr. (esp. with neg.) eat or drink a small portion of (had not tasted food for days).
4 tr. have experience of (had never tasted failure).
5 intr. (often foll. by of) have a specified flavour (tastes bitter; tastes of onions).

Idiom:
a bad (or bitter etc.) taste colloq. a strong feeling of regret or unease. taste blood see BLOOD. taste bud any of the cells or nerve-endings on the surface of the tongue by which things are tasted. to taste in the amount needed for a pleasing result (add salt and pepper to taste).

Derivative:
tasteable adj.

Etymology:
ME, = touch, taste, f. OF tast, taster touch, try, taste, ult. perh. f. L tangere touch + gustare taste


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Feeling

VB  feel, receive an impression, be impressed with, entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling, respond, catch the flame, catch the infection, enter the spirit of, bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby, abide, experience, taste, prove, labor under, smart under, bear the brunt of, brave, stand, swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle, turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face, tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter, shake, be agitated, be excited, look blue, look black, wince, draw a deep breath, impress.


Taste

N  taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable, taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.

VB  appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate, taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang, tickle the palate, smack the lips.


Pulpiness

N  pulpiness, pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume, mush, oatmeal, baby food, pulpy, pultaceous, grumous, baccate.


Discrimination

N  discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism, nice perception, perception of difference, appreciation of difference, estimation, nicety, refinement, taste, critique, judgment, tact, discernment, acuteness, penetration, nuances, dope, past performances, discriminating, dioristic, discriminative, distinctive, nice, il y a fagots et fagots, rem acu tetigisti, la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, miles apart, a distinction without a difference.


[RELATED WORDS]

acquired taste, bad taste, change taste, good taste, in good taste, poor taste, sense of taste, taste bud, taste cell, taste maker, taste perception, taste property, taste sensation, taste tester