| slovo | definícia |
taste
(mass) | taste
- chuť, ochutnať |
taste
(encz) | taste,chuť n: |
taste
(encz) | taste,chutnat v: |
taste
(encz) | taste,vkus n: Pino |
Taste
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\, n.
1. The act of tasting; gustation.
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2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a
substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any
substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as,
the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an
acid taste; a sweet taste.
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3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain
properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor)
are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
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Note: Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter
with the terminal organs (connected with branches of
the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillae
on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is
considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the
point to sweet and acid substances.
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4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with
of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
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I have no taste
Of popular applause. --Dryden.
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5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order,
congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes
excellence, particularly in the fine arts and
belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
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6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in
accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in
good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
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7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. --Shak.
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8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted
or eaten; a bit. --Bacon.
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9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
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Syn: Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.
Usage: Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider
taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple
exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite
to the existence of anything which deserves the name.
An original sense of the beautiful is just as
necessary to aesthetic judgments, as a sense of right
and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on
moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is
not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance
of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with
the progress of the individual and of society at
large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature
of man; and it is in the development of these laws
that we find the true "standard of taste."
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What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
--Akenside.
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Taste buds, or Taste goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped
end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They
are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat
like leaves in a bud.
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Taste
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\ (t[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Tasting.] [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster,
F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste,
(assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to
estimate. See Tax, v. t.]
1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.]
--Chapman.
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Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
--Chaucer.
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2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a
mouth. Also used figuratively.
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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine. --John ii. 9.
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When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became
incapable of pity or remorse. --Gibbon.
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3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
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I tasted a little of this honey. --1 Sam. xiv.
29.
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4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to
experience; to undergo.
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He . . . should taste death for every man. --Heb.
ii. 9.
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5. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an
implied sense of relish or pleasure.
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Thou . . . wilt taste
No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. --Milton.
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Taste
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\, v. i.
1. To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only;
to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind
of wine.
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2. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by
which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to
have a particular quality or character; as, this water
tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
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Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason
Shall to the king taste of this action. --Shak.
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3. To take sparingly.
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For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
--Dryden.
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4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake;
as, to taste of nature's bounty. --Waller.
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The valiant never taste of death but once. --Shak.
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taste
(wn) | taste
n 1: the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue
and throat convey information about the chemical
composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with
a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" [syn:
taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, {taste
perception}, gustatory perception]
2: a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature";
"the Irish have a penchant for blarney" [syn: preference,
penchant, predilection, taste]
3: delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values);
"arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid
success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in
bad taste" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment,
perceptiveness]
4: a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on
the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
5: a small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you'll like it"
[syn: taste, mouthful]
6: the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty
properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense
of taste" [syn: taste, gustation, sense of taste,
gustatory modality]
7: a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the
taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: taste, tasting]
v 1: have flavor; taste of something [syn: taste, savor,
savour]
2: perceive by the sense of taste; "Can you taste the garlic?"
3: take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the
regional dishes" [syn: sample, try, try out, taste]
4: have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of
nutmeg" [syn: smack, taste]
5: distinguish flavors; "We tasted wines last night"
6: experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly
before she died" |
taste
(foldoc) | taste
1. (primarily MIT) The quality of a program that tends to be
inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and
kluges it contains. Taste refers to sound judgment on the
part of the creator. See also elegant, flavour.
2. Alternative spelling of "tayste".
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taste
(jargon) | taste
n.
1. The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the
number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also tasty,
tasteful, tastefulness. “This feature comes in N tasty flavors.” Although
tasty and flavorful are essentially synonyms, taste and flavor are not.
Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or
feature can exhibit taste but cannot have taste. On the other hand, a
feature can have flavor. Also, flavor has the additional meaning of
‘kind’ or ‘variety’ not shared by taste. The marked sense of flavor is
more popular than taste, though both are widely used. See also elegant.
2. Alt. sp. of tayste.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
distasteful
(mass) | distasteful
- odporný, nechutný |
taste
(mass) | taste
- chuť, ochutnať |
aftertaste
(encz) | aftertaste,pachuť Zdeněk Brož |
bad taste in my mouth
(encz) | bad taste in my mouth,mít špatný pocit Zdeněk Brož |
change taste
(encz) | change taste, v: |
consumer tastes
(encz) | consumer tastes, |
distaste
(encz) | distaste,hnus n: Zdeněk Broždistaste,nechuť distaste,odpor Pavel Machek; Giza |
distasteful
(encz) | distasteful,nechutný distasteful,odporný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
distastefully
(encz) | distastefully,nechutně |
distastefulness
(encz) | distastefulness,odpornost n: Zdeněk Broždistastefulness,ohavnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
extraordinary taste
(encz) | extraordinary taste,mimořádná chuť Martin M. |
foretaste
(encz) | foretaste,náznak n: Zdeněk Brožforetaste,předzvěst n: Zdeněk Brož |
give him a taste of his own medicine
(encz) | give him a taste of his own medicine, |
in good taste
(encz) | in good taste, adj: |
in poor taste
(encz) | in poor taste, adj: |
poetaster
(encz) | poetaster, |
sense of taste
(encz) | sense of taste, n: |
taste
(encz) | taste,chuť n: taste,chutnat v: taste,vkus n: Pino |
taste bud
(encz) | taste bud,chuťový pohárek Zdeněk Brož |
taste cell
(encz) | taste cell, n: |
taste perception
(encz) | taste perception, n: |
taste property
(encz) | taste property, n: |
taste sensation
(encz) | taste sensation, n: |
taste tester
(encz) | taste tester, n: |
taste-maker
(encz) | taste-maker, n: |
taste-tester
(encz) | taste-tester, n: |
tastebud
(encz) | tastebud, n: |
tasted
(encz) | tasted,ochutnaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tasteful
(encz) | tasteful,chutný adj: Ritchietasteful,vkusný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tastefully
(encz) | tastefully,chutně adv: Ritchietastefully,vkusně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
tastefulness
(encz) | tastefulness,lahodnost n: Zdeněk Brožtastefulness,vkusnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
tasteless
(encz) | tasteless,bez chuti adj: Ritchietasteless,nevkusný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tastelessly
(encz) | tastelessly,bez chuti adv: Ritchie |
tastelessness
(encz) | tastelessness,chuťová nevýraznost n: Zdeněk Brož |
taster
(encz) | taster,degustátor n: Zdeněk Brožtaster,koštýř n: luketaster,lektor n: luketaster,ochutnavač n: Zdeněk Brož |
tasters
(encz) | tasters,ochutnávači n: pl. luke |
tastes
(encz) | tastes,chutná v: Zdeněk Brožtastes,ochutnává v: Zdeněk Brožtastes,příchutě n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
untasted
(encz) | untasted,neochutnaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
want it so bad i can taste it
(encz) | want it so bad I can taste it, |
wine taster
(encz) | wine taster, n: |
Aftertaste
(gcide) | Aftertaste \Aft"er*taste`\, n.
A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
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Aletaster
(gcide) | Aletaster \Ale"tast`er\, n.
See Aleconner. [Eng.]
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Attaste
(gcide) | Attaste \At*taste\, v. t. [Pref. a- + taste.]
To taste or cause to taste. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Catasterism
(gcide) | Catasterism \Ca*tas"ter*ism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to place among
the stars.]
A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.
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The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. --Whewell.
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Distaste
(gcide) | Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
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Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Distaste \Dis*taste"\, n.
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink;
disrelish. --Bacon.
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2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,
and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
--Bacon.
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3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
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On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste. --Milton.
Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion;
displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
[1913 Webster]Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Distasting.]
1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe;
to dislike.
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Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak.
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2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
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He thought in no policy to distaste the English or
Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to
please them. --Sir J.
Davies.
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3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or
distasteful. --Drayton.
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Distasted
(gcide) | Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distasted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Distasting.]
1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe;
to dislike.
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Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak.
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2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
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He thought in no policy to distaste the English or
Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to
please them. --Sir J.
Davies.
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3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or
distasteful. --Drayton.
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Distasteful
(gcide) | Distasteful \Dis*taste"ful\, a.
1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous;
loathsome.
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2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as,
a distasteful truth.
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Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly
actions. --Milton.
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3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful
looks." --Shak.
Syn: Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing;
dissatisfactory; disgusting. - Dis*taste"ful*ly, adv.
-- Dis*taste"ful*ness, n.
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Distastefully
(gcide) | Distasteful \Dis*taste"ful\, a.
1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous;
loathsome.
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2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as,
a distasteful truth.
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Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly
actions. --Milton.
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3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful
looks." --Shak.
Syn: Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing;
dissatisfactory; disgusting. - Dis*taste"ful*ly, adv.
-- Dis*taste"ful*ness, n.
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Distastefulness
(gcide) | Distasteful \Dis*taste"ful\, a.
1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous;
loathsome.
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2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as,
a distasteful truth.
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Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly
actions. --Milton.
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3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful
looks." --Shak.
Syn: Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing;
dissatisfactory; disgusting. - Dis*taste"ful*ly, adv.
-- Dis*taste"ful*ness, n.
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Distasteive
(gcide) | Distasteive \Dis*taste"ive\, a.
Tending to excite distaste. [Obs.] -- n. That which excites
distaste or aversion. [Obs.] --Whitlock.
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Foretaste
(gcide) | Foretaste \Fore"taste`\, n.
A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
[1913 Webster]Foretaste \Fore*taste"\, v. t.
1. To taste before full possession; to have previous
enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
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2. To taste before another. "Foretasted fruit." --Milton.
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Foretaster
(gcide) | Foretaster \Fore"tast`er\ (? or ?), n.
One who tastes beforehand, or before another.
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Latinitaster
(gcide) | Latinitaster \La*tin"i*tas`ter\, n. [Cf. Poetaster.]
One who has but a smattering of Latin. --Walker.
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Metasternal
(gcide) | Metasternal \Met`a*ster"nal\, a.
Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
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Metasternum
(gcide) | Metasternum \Met`a*ster"num\, n. [Pref. meta- + sternum.]
1. (Anat.) The most posterior element of the sternum; the
ensiform process; xiphisternum.
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2. (Zool.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of
the thorax of insects.
[1913 Webster] MetastomaXiphisternum \Xiph"i*ster"num\, n.; pl. Xiphisterna. [NL., fr.
Gr. xi`fos a sword + sternum.] (Anat.)
(a) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; --
sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage,
ensiform process, or xiphoid process.
(b) The xiphiplastron. -- Xiph"i*ster"nala.
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metasternum
(gcide) | Metasternum \Met`a*ster"num\, n. [Pref. meta- + sternum.]
1. (Anat.) The most posterior element of the sternum; the
ensiform process; xiphisternum.
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2. (Zool.) The ventral plate of the third or last segment of
the thorax of insects.
[1913 Webster] MetastomaXiphisternum \Xiph"i*ster"num\, n.; pl. Xiphisterna. [NL., fr.
Gr. xi`fos a sword + sternum.] (Anat.)
(a) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; --
sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage,
ensiform process, or xiphoid process.
(b) The xiphiplastron. -- Xiph"i*ster"nala.
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Poetaster
(gcide) | Poetaster \Po"et*as`ter\, n.
An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic
art.
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The talk of forgotten poetasters. --Macaulay.
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Taste buds
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\, n.
1. The act of tasting; gustation.
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2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a
substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any
substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as,
the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an
acid taste; a sweet taste.
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3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain
properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor)
are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
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Note: Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter
with the terminal organs (connected with branches of
the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillae
on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is
considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the
point to sweet and acid substances.
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4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with
of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
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I have no taste
Of popular applause. --Dryden.
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5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order,
congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes
excellence, particularly in the fine arts and
belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
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6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in
accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in
good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
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7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. --Shak.
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8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted
or eaten; a bit. --Bacon.
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9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
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Syn: Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.
Usage: Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider
taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple
exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite
to the existence of anything which deserves the name.
An original sense of the beautiful is just as
necessary to aesthetic judgments, as a sense of right
and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on
moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is
not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance
of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with
the progress of the individual and of society at
large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature
of man; and it is in the development of these laws
that we find the true "standard of taste."
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What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
--Akenside.
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Taste buds, or Taste goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped
end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They
are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat
like leaves in a bud.
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Taste goblets
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\, n.
1. The act of tasting; gustation.
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2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a
substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any
substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as,
the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an
acid taste; a sweet taste.
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3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain
properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor)
are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
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Note: Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter
with the terminal organs (connected with branches of
the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillae
on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is
considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the
point to sweet and acid substances.
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4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with
of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
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I have no taste
Of popular applause. --Dryden.
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5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order,
congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes
excellence, particularly in the fine arts and
belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
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6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in
accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in
good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
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7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. --Shak.
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8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted
or eaten; a bit. --Bacon.
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9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
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Syn: Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.
Usage: Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider
taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple
exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite
to the existence of anything which deserves the name.
An original sense of the beautiful is just as
necessary to aesthetic judgments, as a sense of right
and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on
moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is
not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance
of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with
the progress of the individual and of society at
large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature
of man; and it is in the development of these laws
that we find the true "standard of taste."
[1913 Webster]
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? a discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,
Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow,
But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
--Akenside.
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Taste buds, or Taste goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped
end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They
are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat
like leaves in a bud.
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Tasted
(gcide) | Taste \Taste\ (t[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Tasting.] [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster,
F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste,
(assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to
estimate. See Tax, v. t.]
1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.]
--Chapman.
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Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
--Chaucer.
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2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a
mouth. Also used figuratively.
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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine. --John ii. 9.
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When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became
incapable of pity or remorse. --Gibbon.
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3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
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I tasted a little of this honey. --1 Sam. xiv.
29.
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4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to
experience; to undergo.
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He . . . should taste death for every man. --Heb.
ii. 9.
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5. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an
implied sense of relish or pleasure.
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Thou . . . wilt taste
No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. --Milton.
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