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taste
English
Alternative forms
- tast (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxit?re, a new iterative of Latin tax?re (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæ??an (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buri?en (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?st/
- Rhymes: -e?st
Noun
taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- "My tastes," 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; […]."
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Synonyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also Thesaurus:gustation
- (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
- (personal preference): See also Thesaurus:predilection
- (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial
Hyponyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): relish, savor
Meronyms
- (sensation produced by the tongue): bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
- The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
- To experience.
- I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
- They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- He […] should taste death for every man.
- To take sparingly.
- 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false
- Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
- 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- I tasted a little of this honey.
- (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
Synonyms
- (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also Thesaurus:taste
- (have a taste): hint, smack; See also Thesaurus:have taste
Translations
Further reading
- taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- taste in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "taste" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 313.
Anagrams
- Satet, State, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, teats, testa
Danish
Etymology
From the noun tast.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ast?
Verb
taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)
- To type
Conjugation
Derived terms
- indtaste
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
taste
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten
German
Pronunciation
Verb
taste
- inflection of tasten:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)
- to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)
Related terms
- tast (noun)
- tastatur
References
- “taste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tast, taist
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?st/, /tast/
Noun
taste (uncountable)
- perceived flavor
Descendants
- English: taste
- Yola: taaste, tawest, thaaste
References
- “t??st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
taste (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- vocative singular of tast
taste From the web:
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- what tastes bitter
- what taste do dogs hate
- what tastes bad to dogs
- what tastes like bitter almonds
- what tastes good when you have covid
- what tastes good with tequila
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consideration
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French consideracion, from Latin c?ns?der?ti?. Synchronically analyzable as consider +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?d???e???n/
- Hyphenation: con?sid?er?ation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
consideration (countable and uncountable, plural considerations)
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- Synonyms: deliberation, thought
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Synonyms: factor, motive, reason
- The tendency to consider others.
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
- [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
Related terms
Translations
Middle French
Noun
consideration f (plural considerations)
- Alternative form of consyderation
consideration From the web:
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- what consideration when using an aed
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- what is consideration definition
- what do consideration mean
- what is consideration example
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