taste
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Is taste a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.Examples: "Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."; "That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow."; ""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;[…].""Synonyms: discernment, culture, refinement, stylecountableuncountable
2. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.Examples: "Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward."; "I'm all out of luck / I'm all out of faith / I would give everything just for one taste / But everything's here, all out of place[…]"Synonyms: impression, sample, trialcountablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.Examples: "when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine"; "Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it."Synonyms: smacktransitive
2. (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.Examples: "The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."Synonyms: hintcopulativeintransitive
3. (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.Examples: "I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake."transitive
4. (transitive, figurative) To experience.Examples: "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."; "They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."; "He […] should taste death for every man."figurativelytransitive
5. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.Examples: "to taste the bow"obsolete
adj (English)
1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of tasty.Internetalt-ofdeliberatemisspellingnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary