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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.