TASTE

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds. Taste, along with smell and trigeminal nerve stimulation, determines flavors, the sensory impressions of food or other substances.

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taste

Noun

  1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals ().
  2. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. ().
  3. A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

Verb

  1. To sample the flavor of something orally.
  2. 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.
  5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  6. To try by the touch; to handle.


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