| Sounds | tey'st | |
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| Rhymes | aftertaste ... waste: 25 rhymes with eyst... | |
| Meaning | A strong liking. | |
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| Synonyms | preference, penchant, predilection | |
| Narrower | acquired taste | A preference that is only acquired after considerable experience |
| weakness | A penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | |
| Broader | liking | A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment |
| Spanish | gusto, inclinación, predilección, preferencia | |
| Catalan | predilecció, preferència | |
| Meaning | Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). | |
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| Synonyms | appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness | |
| Attributes | tasteful | Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming |
| tasteless | lacking aesthetic or social taste | |
| Narrower | culture | The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group |
| delicacy, discretion | refined taste | |
| virtu, vertu, connoisseurship | love of or taste for fine objects of art | |
| vogue, trend, style | The popular taste at a given time | |
| Broader | discrimination, secernment | The cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished |
| Spanish | apreciación, discernimiento, gusto, perceptividad | |
| Catalan | apreciació, discerniment, gust | |
| Meaning | A brief experience of something. | |
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| Broader | experience | An event as apprehended |
| Spanish | degustación | |
| Verbs | taste | experience briefly |
| Meaning | A small amount eaten or drunk. | |
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| Example | "take a taste--you'll like it" | |
| Synonym | mouthful | |
| Part of | helping, portion, serving | An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal |
| Narrower | morsel, bit, bite | A small amount of solid food |
| swallow, sup | A small amount of liquid food | |
| Broader | small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
| Spanish | bocado | |
| Verbs | taste | take a sample of |
| Meaning | The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth. | |
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| Example | "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" | |
| Synonyms | gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality | |
| Broader | exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
| modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense | |
| Spanish | gustación, gusto, sentido del gusto | |
| Catalan | gust | |
| Adjectives | tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste |
| Verbs | taste | perceive by the sense of taste |
| taste | distinguish flavors | |
| taste | have flavor | |
| taste | have a distinctive or characteristic taste / taste / taste | |
| Meaning | A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds. | |
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| Synonym | tasting | |
| Broader | sensing, perception | Becoming aware of something via the senses |
| Spanish | cata, degustación | |
| Catalan | degustació, tast | |
| Verbs | taste | perceive by the sense of taste |
| taste | distinguish flavors | |
| taste | have flavor | |
| taste | have a distinctive or characteristic taste / taste / taste | |
| Meaning | Have flavor; taste of something. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun | |
| Model | The food does taste good | |
| Synonyms | savor, savour | |
| Caused by | season, flavor, flavour | lend flavor to |
| Narrower | smack, taste | Have a distinctive or characteristic taste / taste / taste |
| Spanish | saborear | |
| Catalan | assaborir | |
| Nouns | taste | a kind of sensing |
| taste | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | |
| taste | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
| Meaning | perceive by the sense of taste. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Can you taste the garlic?" | |
| Entailed by | taste | distinguish flavors |
| Narrower | savor, savour | taste appreciatively |
| Broader | perceive, comprehend | To become aware of through the senses |
| Spanish | degustar, saborear | |
| Catalan | degustar | |
| Nouns | taste, tasting | a kind of sensing |
| taste | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | |
| taste | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
| Meaning | Take a sample of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They taste more bread | |
| Synonyms | sample, try, try out | |
| Narrower | degust | taste with relish |
| Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
| Spanish | catar, degustar, gustar, paladear, probar | |
| Catalan | degustar, gustar, provar, tastar | |
| Nouns | taste | a small amount eaten or drunk |
| taster | someone who samples food or drink for its quality | |
| tasting | taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | |
| tasting | a small amount (especially of food or wine) | |
| Meaning | Have a distinctive or characteristic taste / taste / taste. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This tastes of nutmeg" | |
| Synonym | smack | |
| Broader | taste, savor, savour | Have flavor |
| Nouns | taste, tasting | a kind of sensing |
| taste | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | |
| taste | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
| Meaning | distinguish flavors. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "We tasted wines last night" | |
| Entails | taste | perceive by the sense of taste |
| Broader | identify | Consider to be equal or the same |
| Spanish | catar, degustar, probar | |
| Catalan | degustar, tastar | |
| Nouns | taste | a kind of sensing |
| taste | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | |
| taste | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
| taster | someone who samples food or drink for its quality | |
| Meaning | Experience briefly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" | |
| Broader | know, experience, live | Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations |
| Spanish | degustar, gustar, probar | |
| Catalan | degustar | |
| Nouns | taste | a brief experience of something |
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