Definition of "taste" in 英语

noun

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

4. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   • Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.

5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

   • I have developed a taste for fine wine.

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

   • Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.

7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

verb

1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

2. (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

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

3. (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

   • I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.

4. (transitive, figurative) To experience.

   • I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
   • They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

5. To take sparingly.

   • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

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

7. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

adjective

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of tasty.