tastes

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.”

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

“His taste was impaired by an illness.”

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

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

“Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.”

Personal preference; liking; predilection.

“I have developed a taste for fine wine.”

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

A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

To sample the flavor of something orally.

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

“The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.”

To experience.

“I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.”

To take sparingly.

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

To try by the touch; to handle.