Le mot anglais du jour

taste

goûter

Définitions

anglais > français
taste
1. n. Goût.
The five senses are: sight, sound (hearing), smell, taste, and touch.
Les cinq sens sont : la vue, l'ouïe, l'odorat, le goût, et le toucher.
He has a taste for sweets.
Il a un goût pour les bonbons.
Il a un faible pour les bonbons.
He has no taste in art.
Il n'a aucun goût en matière d'art.
She didn't like golf before, but she's developping a taste for it now.
Elle n'aimait pas le golf auparavant, mais elle développe un goût pour lui maintenant.
2. v. (Transitif) Sentir le goût de.
Do you taste some cinnamon in the sauce?
Est-ce que tu sens de la cannelle dans la sauce ?
Est-ce que tu sens un goût de cannelle dans la sauce ?
3. v. (Transitif) Goûter.
Taste this ice cream. It's delicious!
Goûte cette glace. Elle est délicieuse !
4. v. (Intransitif) Avoir le goût de.
How does it taste?
Quel goût cela a-t-il ?
This dessert tastes very sweet.
Ce dessert est très doux.
Ce dessert a un goût très doux.
This orange juice tastes horrible.
Ce jus de fruit a un goût horrible.
anglais > anglais
taste
1. n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.
2. n. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
3. n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
I have developed a taste for fine wine.
4. n. (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
5. n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
6. v. To sample the flavor of something orally.
7. v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
8. v. To experience.
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
9. v. To take sparingly.
10. v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
11. v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.
français > anglais
goûter
1. v. to taste, to try (to sample something orally)
Je goûterai ta tarte demain car j’ai goûté un fameux tiramisu tout à l'heure. - I will taste your pie tomorrow, since I have just tasted a famous tiramisu.
2. v. (Belgium, Quebec) to taste like
Cette tarte goûte la cannelle. - This pie tastes like cinnamon.
3. v. (figurative) to approve, to appreciate
Le public goûte peu ces sortes d’ouvrages.
Après tant de troubles le pays goûtait un calme profond.
4. n-m. nuncheon
5. n-m. (France) meal similar to breakfast taken around 4 P.M
(synonyms, quatre-heures)