tastenoun詞源 1/teɪst/

• 1

  One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

  • He had a strange taste in his mouth.
  • Venison has a strong taste.
• 2

  The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

  • His taste was impaired by an illness.
• 3

  A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.

• 4

  A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

  • Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
  • That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow.
• 5

  Personal preference; liking; predilection.

  • I have developed a taste for fine wine.
• 6

  A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

  • Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.
  • Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?
• 7

  A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

• 8

  dialectalThe least amount or portion of something; a jot.

  • "So he opened the door very quitely, an' didn't make a taste o' n'ise in the wurld, an' luked all about, but the niver a bit o' the little man cud he see anywhare, but he h'ard his hammerin' and whis'lin', an' so he luked and luked, till at last he seen the little fellow[.]"

tasteverb詞源 1/teɪst/

• 1

  To sample the flavor of something orally.

  • when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
  • Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it.
• 2

  To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

  • The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
• 3

  To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

  • I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
• 4

  To experience.

  • I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
  • They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
• 5

  To take sparingly.

  • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
• 6

  To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

  • I tasted a little of this honey.
• 7

  obsoleteTo try by the touch; to handle.

  • to taste the bow

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• tasty