Word Finder - taste

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One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

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He had a strange taste in his mouth.

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The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

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His taste was impaired by an illness.

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A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.

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A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

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Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

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Personal preference; liking; predilection.

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I have developed a taste for fine wine.

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A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

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A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

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To sample the flavor of something orally.

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To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

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The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

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To experience.

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I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

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To take sparingly.

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To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

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To try by the touch; to handle.

That way you don't have to taste it.

I imagine it would taste mighty good.

You taste like honey, love.

She was starting to taste the bitterness of reality.

I want you to taste it.

She put her cell phone on its charger and explored the house, admiring his taste in everything from furniture to paintings to simple décor.

The scent, the taste, was unlike anything she ever experienced.

She's got a sharp tongue, but she could make shoe soles taste like fine steak.

This was what she smelled, what she ached to taste.

Its taste is exceptionally bitter.

He had no taste for historical investigations.

The exterior has been altered in French taste.

The anhydrous salt is a colourless powder or porous mass, having an alkaline taste and reaction.

William had a taste for books, and made the most of his limited opportunities.

Thomas Thorild (1759-1808) was a much stronger nature, and led the revolt against prevailing taste with far more vigour.

On the other hand, the domestic industries are extensively carried on and exhibit a high degree of technical skill and artistic taste.

They are frankly adapted to Western taste.

An artistic taste will recognize the essential differences, and not endeavour, apart from questions of strength, to graft a design suitable for one on another.

The grain is elongate and of a reddish colour, but it has a sweet smell and very pleasant taste.

They are soluble in water, their solutions having an acid reaction and an astringent taste; the solutions are coloured dark blue or green by ferrous salts, a property utilized in the manufacture of ink.

From tannic acid is also made gallic acid, which resembles tannic acid but has no astringent taste.

In 1570 he supplicated in vain for the degree of B.A., and although a renewed application was granted in 1573 it is doubtful if he ever took a degree; and in 1571 he went to London and devoted himself to antiquarian studies, for which he had already acquired a taste.

The mineral waters of Buxton, which have neither taste nor smell, are among the most noted in England, and are particularly efficacious in cases of rheumatism and gout.

He developed a taste for literature, and his miscellaneous works include The Savages of Europe (London, 1764), a satire on the English which he translated from the French, and Anecdotes Ancient and Modern (London, 1789), an amusing collection of gossip. His chief work was a History of Great Britain connected with the Chronology of Europe from Caesar's Invasion to Accession of Edward VI., in 2 vols.

Talent had been shown by certain individuals, but no healthy school of Swedish poetry had been founded, and the latest imitators of Stjernhjelm had lost every vestige of taste and independence.

We could say he has excellent taste.

He focused on the taste of their warm blood and on tearing them limb from limb.

He complied and kissed her deeply, enjoying the taste and feel of her despite the mix of salty tears.

She has great taste.

He scowled at the immediate burn and taste of acid.

Now he'll get a taste for chickens and start raiding my hen house every night.

Always wanted to taste a Healer.

They taste better anyway.

Their houses are slightly built, but the surrounding ground and roads are laid out with great care and taste.

His early familiarity with country life gave him a taste for natural history, especially botany and ornithology.

The taste of Louis XIV., tempered by the study of Addison and Pope, gave its tone to the.

This period of less than forty years was particularly Gustavian rich in literary talent, and the taste of the people Period.

A writer of far more power and versatility was Johan Henrik Kellgren (q.v.; 1751-1795), the, leader of taste in his time.

Among critics of taste may be mentioned Nils Rosen von Rosenstein (1752-1824); the rhetorical bishop of Linkoping, Magnus Lehnberg (1758-1808); and Count Georg Adlersparre (1760-1809).

He affronts every canon of taste, more by a radical absence, it would seem, of the sense of proportion than by any desire to shock.

It is poisonous and possesses a bitter taste, hence its name from the Greek 7rtKpos, bitter.

The wood is soft and nearly white, but contains much resin, which when fire has run through the forest exudes, and, having in this half-burnt condition a sweetish taste, has given the common name to the tree; the wood seems to be formed slowly; from its smooth grain it is valued for indoor carpentry; the saccharine burnt resin is used as a laxative in California.

When taken continuously the drug soon loses its power as a hypnotic. Its unpleasant taste usually prevents the formation of a paraldehyde habit, but it occasionally occurs with symptoms resembling delirium tremens.

He had good taste in art and literature, was fond of chemistry and science, and the Royal Society was founded in his reign.

The latter, designed as a miniature copy of Windsor Castle, in the midst of a park in the English taste, was formerly the summer residence of the emperor William I.

Other businesses in the food industry—say those pricey health foods you see at fancy grocery stores—optimize for taste and nutrition at the expense of price.

Prince Vasili finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil's behalf.

Deidre reached for him, straining to ease the need to taste him.

She wasn't going to fall under the spell of Gabriel's strong body, his passion, his taste.

The alternative was irreparable and too permanent for my taste.