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noun
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
verb
noun
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- Trial, attempt.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Tested purity or value.
- a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
noun
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- an assortment of various samples
- a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
- an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
- A device that takes samples.
- A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
- A representative selection of a larger group.
- (music) An electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples of recordings.
- Someone whose job is to take samples.
noun
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee.
- A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use.
- (zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
- An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup.
- A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
- give taste to
- have flavor; taste of something
- taste appreciatively
- To detect (a flavour or taste, or food or drink); to taste; specifically, to enjoy or linger on (a flavour or taste, or food and drink); to relish.
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- (chiefly in the negative) To find (something) appealing; to appreciate, to like.
- To enjoy (something) deeply or in a lingering manner; to appreciate, to delight in, to relish.
- To possess a particular (often negative) quality, especially a small amount of it; to be redolent or suggestive of.
- To give (food or drink) flavour; to flavour, to season.
noun
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- (countable) An aroma or smell.
- (countable) A distinctive sensation like a flavour or taste, or an aroma or smell.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) A quality which is appealing or enjoyable; merit, value.
- (uncountable) Enjoyment or taste for something; appreciation; pleasure; relish; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A particular quality, especially a small amount of it; a hint or trace of something.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) An appealing or appetizing flavour, especially one which is savoury or strong.
- (uncountable) The quality which the sense of taste detects; also (countable), a specific flavour or taste, especially one different from the predominant one.
noun
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
verb
- perceive by the sense of taste
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- have flavor; taste of something
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- experience briefly
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
adj
noun
verb
verb
adj
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
adv
verb
noun
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- (hip-hop slang) Style.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (informal, figurative) A kind or type.
- (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
verb
adj
noun
- any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees
- either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family
- an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre
- dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions
- (American spelling) A savory snack.
- The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
- Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.
adj
noun
noun
- An astringent taste.
- a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
- That which acts as an astringent, causing contraction of soft tissue to restrict the flow of blood.
- the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
noun
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
- refined taste; tact
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
adj
adv
noun
verb
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- kiss lightly
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- deliver a hard blow to
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
noun
- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
adv
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- a rough and bitter manner
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- Harsh cold.
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
noun
- (figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors.
- (figuratively) Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something.
- (zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
- Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
- (botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon.
- (cooking, historical) The palate of an animal, as an item of food.
- (entomology, rare) The hypopharynx of an insect.
- the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
verb
noun
- the act of perceiving the odor of something
- the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
- the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
- any property detected by the olfactory system
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
verb
- become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
- emit an odor
- smell bad
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- (by extension) To detect or perceive; often with out.
- (by extension, intransitive, copulative) To smell of; to have a smell of
- (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
noun
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
noun
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- an assortment of various samples
- a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
- an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
- A device that takes samples.
- A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
- A representative selection of a larger group.
- (music) An electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples of recordings.
- Someone whose job is to take samples.
noun
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- Someone who tastes something; especially, either (1) to check its quality (in food science, winemaking, etc.) or (2) as a security measure to prevent assassination of a protectee.
- A sample of something bigger or grander intended for future use.
- (zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophorae, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
- An object in which, or by which, food or drink is tasted, such as a small cup.
- A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
noun
verb
noun
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
verb
- perceive by the sense of taste
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- have flavor; taste of something
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- experience briefly
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- (hip-hop slang) Style.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (informal, figurative) A kind or type.
- (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
verb
noun
- An astringent taste.
- a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
- That which acts as an astringent, causing contraction of soft tissue to restrict the flow of blood.
- the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
noun
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
- refined taste; tact
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
adj
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
adv
verb
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- a rough and bitter manner
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- Harsh cold.
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
noun
- (figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors.
- (figuratively) Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something.
- (zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
- Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
- (botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon.
- (cooking, historical) The palate of an animal, as an item of food.
- (entomology, rare) The hypopharynx of an insect.
- the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
verb
noun
- the act of perceiving the odor of something
- the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
- the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
- any property detected by the olfactory system
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
verb
- become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
- emit an odor
- smell bad
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- (by extension) To detect or perceive; often with out.
- (by extension, intransitive, copulative) To smell of; to have a smell of
- (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
noun
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- (programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- (American football) A field goal or extra point
- (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- An attempt.
- (chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- (specifically) To test someone's patience.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To put to test.
- (law) To put on trial.
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- (with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want, to desire.
- (figuratively, chiefly used in the imperative) To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
- take a sample of
- give pain or trouble to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- test the limits of
- make an effort or attempt
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
verb
noun
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- Trial, attempt.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Tested purity or value.
- a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
verb
- give taste to
- have flavor; taste of something
- taste appreciatively
- To detect (a flavour or taste, or food or drink); to taste; specifically, to enjoy or linger on (a flavour or taste, or food and drink); to relish.
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
- (chiefly in the negative) To find (something) appealing; to appreciate, to like.
- To enjoy (something) deeply or in a lingering manner; to appreciate, to delight in, to relish.
- To possess a particular (often negative) quality, especially a small amount of it; to be redolent or suggestive of.
- To give (food or drink) flavour; to flavour, to season.
noun
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- (countable) An aroma or smell.
- (countable) A distinctive sensation like a flavour or taste, or an aroma or smell.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) A quality which is appealing or enjoyable; merit, value.
- (uncountable) Enjoyment or taste for something; appreciation; pleasure; relish; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A particular quality, especially a small amount of it; a hint or trace of something.
- (countable, chiefly in the negative) An appealing or appetizing flavour, especially one which is savoury or strong.
- (uncountable) The quality which the sense of taste detects; also (countable), a specific flavour or taste, especially one different from the predominant one.
noun
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
verb
- perceive by the sense of taste
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- have flavor; taste of something
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- experience briefly
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
adj
verb
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- kiss lightly
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- deliver a hard blow to
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
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- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
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- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
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- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
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- any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees
- either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family
- an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre
- dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions
- (American spelling) A savory snack.
- The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
- Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.