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See also:Taste,tašte,andtāste

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishtasten, borrowed fromOld Frenchtaster, from assumedVulgar Latin*tastāre, from assumedVulgar Latin*taxitāre, a new iterative ofLatintaxāre(“to touch sharply”), fromtangere(“to touch”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*teh₂g-. Almost displaced nativeMiddle Englishsmaken, smakien(“to taste”) (fromOld Englishsmacian(“to taste”)),Middle Englishsmecchen(“to taste, smack”) (fromOld Englishsmæċċan(“to taste”)) (whence Modern Englishsmack),Middle Englishburiȝen(“to taste”) (fromOld Englishbyrigan, birian(“to taste”)).

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Noun

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taste (countable anduncountable,pluraltastes)

  1. One of thesensations produced by thetongue in response to certainchemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
    He had a strangetaste in his mouth.
    Venison has a strongtaste.
  2. Thesense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
    Histaste was impaired by an illness.
  3. A smallsample offood,drink, orrecreational drugs.
  4. (countable and uncountable) A person'simplicit set of preferences, especiallyesthetic, though alsoculinary,sartorial, etc.
    Dr. Parker has goodtaste in wine.
    • 1777,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,The School for Scandal, II.i:
      That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend toTaste again I allow.
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      "Mytastes," 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; […]."
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 1, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modishtaste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  5. Personalpreference;liking;predilection.
    I have developed ataste for fine wine.
  6. (figuratively) A small amount ofexperience with something that gives a sense of itsquality as a whole.
    Such anecdotes give one ataste of life on a trauma ward.
  7. A kind of narrow and thinsilkribbon.
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Terms derived fromtaste (noun)
Translations
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one of the sensations produced by the tongue
the sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation
implicit set of preferences
personal preference; liking; predilection
(figuratively) a small amount of experience
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Verb

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taste (third-person singular simple presenttastes,present participletasting,simple past and past participletasted)

  1. (transitive) Tosample theflavor of somethingorally.
  2. (intransitive, copulative) To have ataste; toexcite a particularsensation by whichflavor isdistinguished.
    The chickentasted great, but the milktasted like garlic.
  3. (transitive) Toidentify (aflavor) bysampling somethingorally.
    I can definitelytaste the marzipan in this cake.
  4. (transitive, figurative) Toexperience.
    Itasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
    They had not yettasted the sweetness of freedom.
  5. Totakesparingly.
  6. Totry byeating a little; to eat asmallquantity of.
  7. (obsolete) Totry by thetouch; tohandle.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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to sample the flavor of something
to have a taste
to experience
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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taste (notcomparable)

  1. (Internetslang)Deliberate misspelling oftasty.

Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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FromEnglishtaste.

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Noun

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taste

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)taste(preference of a person)

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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taste

  1. second-personpluralimperative oftasit

Danish

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Etymology

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From the nountast.

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Verb

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taste (imperativetast,infinitiveattaste,present tensetaster,past tensetastede,perfect tensehar/ertastet)

  1. Totype

Conjugation

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Conjugation oftaste
activepassive
presenttastertastes
pasttastedetastedes
infinitivetastetastes
imperativetast—
participle
presenttastende
pasttastet
(auxiliary verbhave)
gerund—

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Dutch

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Verb

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taste

  1. (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive oftasten

German

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taste

  1. inflection oftasten:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. first/third-personsingularsubjunctive I
    3. singularimperative

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromOld Frenchtast.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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taste (uncountable)

  1. perceivedflavor

Descendants

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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taste (imperativetast,present tensetaster,passivetastes,simple past and past participletastaortastet,present participletastende)

  1. totype(on a computer keyboard or typewriter)

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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taste (Cyrillic spellingтасте)

  1. vocativesingular oftast
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